sugar seems to have properties of liquid. why?
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When the sugar dissolves, it is broken up into individual particles; each molecule is surrounded by water molecules. ... The best fit is a liquid since the molecules are free to move independently and will take on the shape of the container.
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It has to do with the size of the container in comparison to the sugar and salt crystals. If you take any solid object and put it inside a large enough container, it will appear to take the form of the container. But if you examine closely, the individual crystals are unchanged and in fact, have lots of space between them. A good way to view this is to take a jar and put rocks in until it's full. It will fill the space but leave pockets of air. Then take sand and shake it down into the jar. The sand will fill many of the spaces. You'd be surprised how much will go in. Once you fill it with rocks and sand, pour some water in. The water will then fill the spaces in between the sand. This will show that even though they appear to take the shape of a container, they aren't in reality. If they did confirm to the container, no sand would make it past the rocks and no water would make it past the sand.
Try this. Take a jar pour in sand until it’s full then pour in water. Since the water will displace the air that was in all those little gaps between the grains of sand, the sand did not fill the jar. It did not take the shape of the jar. Each granule is still the same unchanged shape. Same with any solid made up of granules like that.
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Sugar is made up of solid granules, allowing the solid to flow.
To really see the difference between a granular solid and a liquid, consider pouring a cup of each onto a table. The liquid will spread out and probably drip off the table where as the sugar will form a pile ( this is a stable configuration for solids only). Hope this helps.
Let us extrapolate the premise of your question with the same logic you use, and you tell us…gravel takes the shape of the container it is in, how can you say gravel is solid in nature? Just false logic applied to cristals which by their nature are of smaller scale which to a few laymen might make sense.