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A change of state between solid and liquid can be caused by adding or removing heat (ACSSU046)

Elaborations
  • investigating how liquids and solids respond to changes in temperature, for example water changing to ice, or melting chocolate
  • exploring how changes from solid to liquid and liquid to solid can help us recycle materials
  • predicting the effect of heat on different materials
ScOT terms

Heat,  Melting,  Freezing (Phase transformation)

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