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The properties of gases, liquids, and solids differ in a number of respects. How would you...

The properties of gases, liquids, and solids differ in a number of respects. How would you use the kinetic molecular theory (see Section 11.2) to explain the following observations? (a) Ease of compressibility decreases from gas to liquid to solid, (b) Solids retain a definite shape, but gases and liquids do not. (c) For most substances, the volume of a given amount of material increases as it changes from solid to liquid to gas.

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