Consider three 10-g samples of water: one as ice, one as a liquid, and on as vapor. How do the volumes of thes

Question

Consider three 10-g samples of water: one as ice, one as a liquid, and on as vapor. How do the volumes of these three samples compare with one another? How is this difference in volume related to the physical state involved?

Answer 1

OK, so first of all the vapor takes the largest volume of the three, the second is the ice ( water is the only substance that in the solid form takes more volume than in the liquid one, that's why if you put a glass bottle filled with water to the freezer, the water will solidify and the bottle will break - try this), the smallest volume is the liquid water.

Answer 2

The density of ice is 0.63g/mL So10g of water ice is 10g x 1mLice/0.63 = 6.3 mL

The 10-g sample of liquid water is 10 mL H2O

The 10g water vapor is 10gH2O x 1molH2O/18gH2O x 22.4LH2O/1molH2O = 12.4 L vapor.

Because of the peculiar behavior of water, ice is less dense than liquid water. Water vapor has the least density of the three states of matter.