An excellent Piagetian laboratory exercise, Some Like It Hot!, is provided as an extension to the heat of fusion laboratory. It is highly recommended as a way to broaden studentsÕ concepts of heat and heat flow.
In addition, you may wish to have interested students look into the ten topics listed below for a broader perspective on the condensed states of matter.
1. Anhydrous substances
2. Desiccants
3. Hygroscopic, deliquescent, and efflorescent substances
4. Diamond and graphite structures (allotropes)
5. Liquid crystals
6. Semiconductors
7. Hydrogen bonding in water and related properties of water
8. Surface tension and capillarity
9. Phase diagrams
10. Liquefaction of gases
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