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| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |Chocolate can '''melt''' in your mouth because your mouth is warm.
| style="height:20px; width:200px; text-align:center;" |You can '''melt''' butter in a frying pan.
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==Key Stage 3==
===Meaning===
'''Melting''' is when a [[solid]] turns into a [[liquid]].
===About Melting===
: Most [[Solid|solids]] can be '''melted''' to become a [[liquid]].
: '''Melting''' is a [[Reversible Changes|reversible]] process. When a [[solid]] '''melts''' you can always [[Freezing|freeze]] it back into a [[solid]].
: A [[solid]] can be '''melted''' by heating it.
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|+ When you heat a [[solid]]:
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|[[File:ParticleModelMelting.png|center|600px]]
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| style="height:20px; width:600px; text-align:left;" |The [[particle]]s in the [[solid]] [[vibrate]] faster until they [[vibrate]] fast enough that they break the [[bond]]s holding them in fixed positions. The [[particle]]s become free to move which makes the [[State of Matter|state]] a [[liquid]].
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