Question

A wooden chair is a solid at room temperature.'-give two reasons to justify it.

Answer 1

hi, a wooden chair has a definite volume and definite shape.It is rigid and cannot be compressed. It has characteristics of a solid.hence a wooden chair is a solid at room temperature.

Answer 2

The chair is in solid state at room temperature because it will obeys every characteristic of solid at the room temperature.

Properties of solid at room temperature are:

• The Molecules of solids are tightly packed thus they will not be allowed to move freely like that of liquids.  

• The molecules posses definite dimension i.e shape and size in nature, due to which they are highly in compressible in nature.

• The molecules are Hard in nature.