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phase changes 3.3
collins-phns-phasechangesvocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a phase change? | The reversible physical change that occurs when a substance changes from one state of matter to another. |
| What happens during a endothermic change? | The system absorbs energy from its surroundings. |
| What is heat of fusion? | The Energy a substance must absorb in order to change form a solid to a liquid. |
| The system releases energy to its surroundings. | Exothermic |
| A endothermic process which changes a liquid into a gas. | Vaporization |
| The energy a substance must have to change from a liquid to a gas. | Heat if vaporization |
| The process that changes a substance from a liquid to a gas at temperatures below the substance's boiling point. | Evaporation |
| Pressure caused by the collisions of this vapor and the walls of a container. | Vapor pressure |
| The Phase change in which a sustance changes from a gas or vapor to a liquid. | Condensation |
| The phase change in which a substances changes from a solid to a gas or vapor without changign to a liquid first. | Sublimation |
| When a gas or vapor changes directly into a solid without first changing to a liquid. | Deposition |