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Particle model and the three states

Particle model and the three states

Particle diagrams showing solid, liquid and gas with labelled state changes

Chemists use the particle model to explain matter as tiny particles with spaces between them. It is a simplified picture, but it helps us link what we observe to particle arrangement and motion.

States of matter Lesson

  1. IGCSE
  2. /Chemistry
  3. /States of matter