Phase+Changes

Hey everyone, I'm back. And today in our special little science wiki thing of greatness, you will be learning about phase changes. HOORAY!!! But there is one price. You must give me.. YOUR SOUUUUUUULS!!! WARHARHAR!! No just kidding. But there is a good example of me having a sugar rush. Moving on.

Phase changes are sometimes confused with states of matter. But let me say something to you: they are DIFFERENT! Different like how Norman Bates is different from Patrick Bateman. They may both be psycopaths from horror films with simmalar last names, but they are different in many ways. Like, Norm uses a knife and usually kills peeps when there in the shower, while Pat uses an axe, doesn't live with his mommy, and always talks about music before he kills someone (tch.. Patrick Bateman is much cooler). Sorry, that was off subject. I can hear my grade for this going down already.

States of matter refers to the differences between solids, liquids, gases, plasmas, etc. (was the etc. really neccisary?) But phase changes are the like... time it takes for one state of matter to change to a different state of matter. Example? Say it's a really hot summer day. And you have a lemonade with exactly 3 ice cubes. And when you drink all the lemonade, you accidentally leave the glass with the ice cubes in it. So you go on a walk with your dog or something, and when you come back to eat the ice cubes, you see that the ice cubes are gone! And instead of ice cubes, there's water! HOLY CRAP OF MY LIFE!

Actully, you're probobly not as much of an idiot as me, so you most likely know what happened to the ice cubes. Yes, they melted. Meaning they were once a solid, but now they are a liquid. That is what a phase change is. When a random thing. whatever state it's in, changes into another random thing.

Okay. Now these different phase changes have different names. Different like how Leatherface is different then Pinhead. And before I go into detail on those horror film people, I'll tell you the names of the different phase changes. When a solid turns into a liquid, it's called MELTING, which usually happens when the solid is put under extremely hot conditions. When a liquid turns into a solid it's called FREEZING which happens when a liquid is put under cold conditions. When a liquid turns into a gas, it's called VAPORIZATION, which happens when it's really hot. And when a gas turns into a liquid, it's called CONDENSATION. Yay.



And that's basically all there is to it. Hope this helped. And if you wanna comment, just email me at defy.gravity2112@gmail.com (and my name is maddison in case you didn't read my thing on density) Now, on to english homework. HI HO SILVA! AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!