Question

Diagram 2 shown above represents a particle-level view of liquid Xe atoms. (i) In the box in diagram 1, DESCRIBE what a particle-level view that represents a vessel that contains only solid Xe would look like.

Answer 1

Answer:

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Explanation:

The particles would be in a fixed arrangement in the container.

They would not be able to move past each other. but they could vibrate back and forth.

In technical language, we would say that the particles oscillate about a fixed position in a crystalline array.