What happens to partials of a solid as thermal energy is added and the solid undergoes a phase change?

Define the Law of Conservation of Energy.

If someone can help me with these questions, that would be great!

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once is enough, thank you.
Those who can help probably only want do do it once for each question.
1. Read up on the Kinetic Molecular Theory.
2. Look on Google. Definitions galore.
My apologies! I didn't mean to post it twice. I'm not really used to jiskha on my phone, haha!

Thanks for the help though!