When snow melts, what happens to the surrounding air?
1 Answer
Feb 13, 2017
It cools.
Explanation:
According to particle theory, the motion of the particles of water either increase or decrease as the water changes state. Liquid particles are more energetic than solid. The energy that was required by the particles to change state stays in the particles until they go back to solid state. These energy has to come from somewhere, and in this case it comes from the surrounding air particles. Essentially the air particles are transferring some of their momentum to the water particles. This is observed as a drop in temperature of the air particles.
