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when a substance such as ice melts, its temperature increases. desrcibe what happens to the arrangment of water molecules as the temperature increases

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Step-by-step explanation:

The water molecules begins to leave their fixed position and begins to move as the temperature increases.

When ice melts, it undergoes a state change from solid to liquid and with increasing temperature becomes a gas.

  • The basis for this is the increasing movement of the molecules of the water as it transitions from one phase to another.
  • In the ice, the molecules are locked and fixed in the lattice
  • As the temperature increases, the average kinetic energy of the particles rises.
  • This makes the structure of the ice to collapse and forms liquids.
  • By the virtue of this, they flow and move over one another
  • With increasing temperature, the bonds are broken and vapor forms
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