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Mistake Master · AP Chemistry · Unit 3 · Step-Through Animation
Ice, Water, Steam: One Molecule, Three Arrangements
You'll learnthat melting and boiling change only particle spacing and motion, never the molecule itself.
A box holds twenty-four water molecules. Freeze it, melt it, boil it, and not one of those molecules is created, split or swapped — only how far apart they sit and how they move. Twelve short steps; press Next for each one.
one molecule · three arrangements · spacing and motion only
Before you start
What you're looking at
A box of 24 water molecules, shown as solid ice, then liquid water, then gaseous steam.
The question
Ice, water and steam: how many different substances is that?
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