🧊 States of matter: heat and cool
Heat it up, cool it down. Slide the temperature and watch the particles of water change from ice to water to steam.
Finding the particles…
Everything is made of tiny particles. In a solid like ice they sit in a tidy pattern and only wobble. In a liquid like water they slide past each other. In a gas like steam they fly about far apart. Heat is the particles moving faster, so heating water turns ice into water and then into steam.
These are the real temperatures for water at sea level: it melts at 0 °C (32 °F) and boils at 100 °C (212 °F). The animation stands still if your device is set to reduce motion, and nothing you do is saved or sent. Try a real experiment at home with the science fair project picker.