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enotechris
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Can all the elements, remaining as elements, turn into solids? Why or why not?

There's only about a dozen or so elements that aren't solids. Can they all turn into solids? How?

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Posted by enotechris on Wednesday December 17, 2008 at 6:10 PM and tagged with elements, periodic table, science.

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  1. jkendall86
    jkendall86 Teacher
    High School - 10th Grade

    In theory, all elements can turn into solids when absolute zero is reached. However, no one has yet attained this temperature.

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    Posted by jkendall86 on Thursday December 18, 2008 at 10:50 AM

  2. giorgiana1976
    giorgiana1976 Teacher
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     Argument Exemple

    All chemical elements could be clasified in periodic table, as groups of elements which have similar properties.

    Carbon is an element of 4th group (more exactly 14 group). This group includes elements as silicium, germanium, tin and lead. 

    Unlike the other elements, which turn into solid when reacting with oxygen, at normal atmospheric pressure; carbon turns into a gas (e.g. carbon monoxide and dioxide).

    This fact is due to small weight of carbon atoms, the last ones being lighter than the other ones from the same, 4 th, group.

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    Posted by giorgiana1976 on Friday December 19, 2008 at 6:07 AM