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Need help comparing the properties of volume and shape in an iron gas, liquid inside jar and jellybeans in a jar

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We are going to look at the picture and try to understand the shape and volume of each state of matter.

The matter has three states: liquid, solid, and gas. Nowadays science considers others. We are going to consider just the three I named.

Shape and Volume:

Gas: has no definite shape. You can look at the picture and see the water steam doesn't have a shape. It's random.

It doesn't have a definite volume either. Molecules from the gas are everywhere.

Liquid: Has a definite volume. Looking at the picture, the glass is open, and molecules are together, they don't escape.

About the shape, take the shape of the container.

Solid: has definite shape and volume.

Answer:

Gas: No definite shape, no definite volume

Liquid: definite volume, take the shape of the container.

Solid: definite volume and shape.

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