Question

Which of the following terms identifies the change from a liquid to solid?

Answer 1

Answer:

The process of a solid becoming a liquid is called melting (an older term that you may see sometimes is fusion). The opposite process, a liquid becoming a solid, is called solidification. For any pure substance, the temperature at which melting occurs—known as the melting point —is a characteristic of that substance.

Explanation:

Answer 2

The term that identifies the change from liquid to solid is called freezing.

• Freezing refers to the process of liquid changing into solid when its temperature lowers below its freezing point.
• In freezing, the molecules of the liquid lose their flowing characteristic. They become tightly bound together as in solids with no intermolecular space.
• For example, when water (liquid) is kept in the deep freezer, it freezes and changes into ice (solid).