Question

How does sublimaiton and Deposition relate to chemistry?

250 or more words please.

Answer 1

Fill your ice cube trays with water, place them in the freezer, and the next day, you will have ice cubes formed through a process called freezing. If you drop those ice cubes on the floor, soon they will have melted into a puddle of water. Freezing and melting are two common phase transitions, or changes in the states of matterto or from solid, liquid, gas, or plasma.

Sublimation is another one of these phase transitions; except in this case, we have a solid turning directly into a gas. As a sublimating material changes from a solid to a gas, it never passes through the liquid state. This image shows water in its three forms: ice, water, and steam. Sublimation is just one of the ways water or another substance can change between its potential phases.

Deposition is a thermodynamic process, a phase transition in which gas transforms into solid without passing through the liquid phase. The reverse of deposition is sublimation and hence sometimes deposition is called desublimation.