An analogy to solids, liquids, and gases is given for beginning students. It uses the locations and friendships of the students themselves as particles and relates these to the positions and intermolecular forces among the particles in the three states of matter.
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Citation
Ramasami, Ponnadurai. J. Chem. Educ.2000 77 485.
Keywords
Intermolecular Forces; Liquids; Gases; Introductory / High School Chemistry; Solids
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