rt A For a given substance, do you expect the density of the substance in its liquid state to be closer to the density in the gaseous state or in the solid state?

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4 July, 05:04

rt A For a given substance, do you expect the density of the substance in its liquid state to be closer to the density in the gaseous state or in the solid state?

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A substance in its liquid state is closer to the density of its solid phase than the density of its gaseous phase.

Explanation:

For a substance in its liquid state we can expect the density of the substance more closer to the density of its solid state than its gaseous state because the the inter-molecular space is much close near to incompressible in the liquid state and the the inter-molecular force of attraction is much higher as compared to gaseous state.

In contrast to the molecular properties in liquid state gases have almost negligible inter-molecular force of attraction and very huge inter-molecular spacing which makes it well compressible.