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AP Chemistry 3.3 Structure and Arrangement of Atoms. What is the direct conversion from a solid to a gas called?

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00:03

Here’s your Shmoop du jour, brought to you by states of matter.

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Chemistry has three, which is perfectly respectable. [Solid, liquid and a gas]

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America’s just showing off.

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Here’s our question:

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Solid carbon dioxide is sometimes used to refrigerate foods and to make the fog that

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emits from fog machines because carbon dioxide is a solid at low temperature.

00:25

When exposed to air, carbon dioxide immediately converts to a gas.

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What is the direct conversion from a solid to a gas called?

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And here are our potential answers...

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This question is fairly straightforward, but just for fun, let’s look at all the different [Road sign for route to the answer]

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phase transitions you might get thrown at you on a test.

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Hopefully not literally. [Teacher throwing balled up paper at a student]

00:47

Matter exists in one of three states: solid, liquid, or gas.

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The temperature of the matter and pressure on the matter will determine what state the

00:56

matter is in.

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Matter can transition between states if the pressure or temperature of the matter changes, [Liquid pouring out of a soda bottle]

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or if they’re standing in that one cool place where Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, and

01:06

Colorado meet.

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The most common transitions we observe in daily life are solid to liquid and liquid

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to gas, because these are the transitions that water undergoes at normal temperatures [Man sitting on a sofa with a water droplet]

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and pressures.

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If these are not the transitions you observe most frequently, you may be a life form from [People standing in a field and alien appears from a spacecraft]

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another planet in which case please contact NASA so they can study you––no dissections

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we promise.

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However, all matter can undergo a transition between any two phases of matter if the temperature [Girl throwing darts at a board]

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and pressure are in the right spot.

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The question is asking us about a transition from a solid to a gas, which isn’t common

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in water on earth but is the norm for carbon dioxide. [A river streaming with water]

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And because scientists like graphs...really, here’s a graph showing how much we like

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graphs compared to other people….there’s a graphical way to represent phase transitions. [People studying a graph]

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This helps us see how transitions between any states of matter can occur, while having

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all the added fun of being a graph!

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Creatively called a “phase transition diagram,”––what? [Boy with a phase transition diagram]

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We like graphs, not thinking of creative names for them–– this plot shows the state of

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matter for CO2, the molecule in the question.

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Each line between states on the graph represents a point where if the temperature or pressure

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changes, the carbon dioxide will go from one state to another.

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This gives us a total of six ways that matter can change states, because each change is

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reversible.

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Let’s take a look at what each change is called.

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Going from solid to liquid is named “Thomas,” but goes by “Tom” for short. [Ice cubes melt into a puddle of water]

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...Okay, it’s actually called melting, and going from liquid to solid is freezing.

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Going from liquid to gas is boiling and going from gas to liquid is condensing [Person pours boiling water into a pan]

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And going from solid to gas is sublimation and going from gas to solid is deposition

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The question was asking what the transition from a solid to a gas is called, so the answer

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is A. Sublimation. [Answer A circled green]

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Answer B, melting is solid to liquid and answer D, boiling is liquid to gas.

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And answer D, decomposition isn’t even a transition between states of matter, so we

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can toss that one right into the compost bin. [Man throws decomposition into a compost bin]

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We found the right answer and eliminated all the others, so our chemistry skills must be

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sublimation!

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...Whoops. [Chemistry skills explode]

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We meant sublime.

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Now we’ll never get those skills back...

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