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Effect of Heat On Matter

Matter undergoes changes of state when heat is absorbed or released. The physical processes involved are melting, boiling, condensation, freezing, evaporation, and sublimation. Melting and freezing involve a change between liquid and solid states, boiling and condensation between liquid and gas, evaporation occurs when a liquid turns to a gas without boiling, and sublimation is a direct change between solid and gas states.

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Effect of Heat On Matter

Matter undergoes changes of state when heat is absorbed or released. The physical processes involved are melting, boiling, condensation, freezing, evaporation, and sublimation. Melting and freezing involve a change between liquid and solid states, boiling and condensation between liquid and gas, evaporation occurs when a liquid turns to a gas without boiling, and sublimation is a direct change between solid and gas states.

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Effect of Heat on Matter

1. Matter undergoes a change of state when amount of heat energy in it changes.


2. When a substance is heated, it absorbs heat.
3. When a substance cools down, it release heat.
4. The physical processes involved in the changes of state of matter are melting, , boiling,
condensation, freezing, evaporation and sublimation.

A. Melting
and Freezing
1. Melting is a process in which a substance changes from a solid state to a liquid state.
2. The temperature at which a pure substance melts is called the melting point of the
substance.
3. Freezing is a process when a liquid becomes a solid.
4. The temperature at which a pure substance freezes is called the freezing point of the
substance
B. Boiling and Condensation
1. Boiling is the process by which a substance changes from a liquid state to a gaseous
state.
2. The temperature at which a substance boils is called its boiling point.
3. Condensation takes place when a substance changes from a gaseous state to a liquid
state.
C. Evaporation
1. Evaporation is a process in which a liquid becomes a gas without boiling.
2. Evaporation takes place at any temperature. During evaporation, heat is absorbed from
the surroundings.
3. It only occurs on the exposed surface of a liquid.
D. Sublimation
1. Sublimation is the process in which substance changes directly from a solid to a gas or
from a gas to a solid without having changed into a liquid first when is heated or cooled
respectively.
2. A piece of dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) will absorb heat from its surroundings and
quickly become carbon dioxide gas.
3. The mothballs in the cupboard and some air fresheners also undergo sublimation.
4. Substances in the laboratory that can be used to demonstrate sublimation are iodine
crystal, sulphur, ammonium chloride and naphthalene.

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