87.6k views
3 votes
If you wanted to take a solid nugget of silver and make it flow so that it can be shaped, how could you do it? you could...

User Dawnoflife
by
5.5k points

1 Answer

2 votes

Answer:

It should be heated

Step-by-step explanation:

To change the solid nugget of silver to liquid so that it can be shaped, the solid mass should be heated to the melting point.

  • This change is a phase change from solid to liquid
  • When the melting point of a substance is reached, the fixed lattice structure collapses.
  • This allows for the particles to slide and flow relative to one another.

Therefore a phase change from solid to liquid is attained by heating of the solid to melting point.