Question

A truck was carrying a substance in a tank. The molecules of that substance were moving away from each other. The truck parked overnight in a place where energy transferred out of the substance. In the morning, the substance was a gas. How were the molecules moving in the morning?

Answer 1

The gases will be together since they do not possess kinetic energy

Step-by-step explanation:

let us use the kinetic theory of matter to explain the condition of the gas in the morning.

During the day, the atmosphere can be very hot so the gases tend to be in constant random motion, hence they will move away from themselves because they possess kinetic energy.

In the morning the temperature of the atmosphere is relatively low and the vehicle is not in motion, hence the gases will move together because they no longer possess kinetic energy anymore