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A cylinder at left with balls stacked near the bottom of the cylinder has an arrow leading to a cylinder at right cylinder with balls in a layer on the bottom of the cylinder.
How is energy related to the change of state represented by the model?

Atoms gain energy as a solid changes to a liquid.
Atoms gain energy as a solid changes to a gas.
Atoms lose energy as a solid changes to a liquid.
Atoms lose energy as a solid changes to a gas.

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Atoms gain energy as a solid changes to a liquid.

The left shows tightly packed, ordered particles (solid); the right shows them more spread and able to move past each other (liquid). Melting is endothermic, so particles gain kinetic energy to overcome some intermolecular attractions.