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Think about a pot of boiling water. In one or two sentences, compare how the water particles in the pot are behaving to how the water particles in the steam above the pot are behaving.

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When water is heated, it expands, or increases in volume. When water increases in volume the particles , heat energy makes its molecules move around more and take up more space Because the molecules are more spread out, the density goes down, after that When water is heated it evaporates, which means it turns into water vapor and expands

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