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Classify the following into osmosis/diffusion:
Aquatic animals using oxygen dissolved in water during respiration.

Important Questions on Matter in Our Surroundings

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Water as ice has a cooling effect, whereas water as steam may cause severe burns. Explain these observations.
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Alka was making tea in a kettle. Suddenly she felt intense heat from the puff of steam gushing out of the spout of the kettle. She wondered whether the temperature of the steam was higher than that of the water boiling in the kettle. Comment.
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A glass tumbler containing hot water is kept in the freezer compartment of a refrigerator (temperature < 0°C. If you could measure the temperature of the content of the tumbler, which of the following graphs would correctly represent the change in its temperature as a function of time.

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Look at Figure and suggest in which of the vessels A, B, C or D the rate of evaporation will be highest? Explain.

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Conversion of solid to vapour is called sublimation. Name the term used to denote the conversion of vapour to solid.
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Conversion of solid state to liquid state is called fusion; what is meant by latent heat of fusion?
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You are provided with a mixture of naphthalene and ammonium chloride by your teacher. Suggest an activity to separate them with well labelled diagram.
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It is a hot summer day, Priyanshi and Ali are wearing cotton and nylon clothes respectively. Who do you think would be more comfortable and why?