Question

What happens to the atoms in a liquid as it freezes?

Answer 1

As the liquid freezes the atoms within the liquid slow down because they lose energy, they then begin to form neat rows and turn into a solid.

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Answer 2

They are held together by attractive forces: Liquids adapt to the container it's in and its molecular bonds are more suspectable to break. When it starts to freeze, their molecules are tightly bound and maintain a particular shape, by doing this we gave this molecules energy and their attractive forces are stronger and change it material state from liquid to solid.

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