why are the gases highest compressible but not soilde or liquid
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There is no space between the individual particles, so they cannot pack together. The kinetic-molecular theory explains why gases are more compressible than either liquids or solids. Gases are compressible because most of the volume of a gas is composed of the large amounts of empty space between the ɢᴀs ᴘᴀʀᴛɪᴄʟᴇs
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