State of matter to describe the characteristics of a solid, liquid, and gas. Write 11. Language Smarts Use what you have observed and learned about each
yes or noto complete the table.
Characteristics
Solid
Liquid
Gas
fixed shape
shape changes to fit container
(shape
fixed volume
yes
volume changes to fit container
vibrate in place
no
slide past each other, change position
Particle
motion
move freely, change position
has a low kinetic energy
has a medium kinetic energy
has a high kinetic energy
no
yes
no
Kinetic
energy
en particles hold the particles of liquids and solidsche
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6.4 cm (max) - 25 cm (min)

most historians agree that gabriel mouton, the vicar of st. paul’s church in lyons, france, is the “founding father” of the metric system. he proposed a decimal system of measurement in 1670. mouton based it on the length of one minute of arc of a great circle of the earth (now called a nautical mile, 1852 meters). he also proposed the swing-length of a pendulum with a frequency of one beat per second as the unit of length (about 25 cm). a pendulum beating with this length would have been fairly easy to produce, thus facilitating the widespread distribution of uniform standards. over the years, his work was revised, improved, and extended by a number of french scientists.

the political sponsor of weights and measures reform in the french revolutionary national assembly was the bishop of autun, better known as talleyrand. under his auspices, the french academy appointed several committees to carry out the work of developing a usable system of weights and measures for france. one of the committees recommended a decimalized measurement system based upon a length equal to one ten-millionth of the length of a quadrant of the earth’s meridian (i.e., one ten-millionth of the distance between the equator and the north pole).