Melting in

different solids
Learning Outcomes

★ Investigate how materials change when they are heated

and cooled.
★ Know that melting is when a solid changes into liquid
and is the reverse of freezing.
★ Make relevant observations and comparisons.
★ Identify the simple trends and patterns and suggest
explanations.
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Matter
Riddles

Words to learn

gold
 Activity 3.5 Compare melting in different solids

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Be careful of the ★ Observe carefully.
steam. It can burn ★ Record the time taken for each substance
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Record your results in a bar chart
 Questions

1. Describe the phase change that each substance went

through when you heated it.

2. How did you try to make this investigation a fair test?

3. In what ways was the investigation not a fair test?

4. What will happen to the water if you continue heating it?

 Even metals like gold and iron will melt if they get hot
enough. Metals have to be heated in a furnace to melt.
d u cate When the melted metal cools it becomes a solid again.
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This gold was heated until

it melted. Then it was
poured into moulds.
 The gold cools in the mould and
becomes a solid again. These solid
gold bars are called ingots.

Here are the phase changes the

gold has passed through:

heat cool
solid liquid solid
 What you have learnt

★ Some solids take longer to melt than others.

★ Even metals melt if they get hot enough
 Talk about it Homework

Why do you think different

substances take different
times to melt?