The smell of hot, sizzling food reaches you several meters away, but to get the smell of the cold food you have to go too close. Which property of matter does this activity show?

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Particles of matter have space

Particles of matter are continuously moving

Particles of matter attract each other

None of the above

answer is B.

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The reason why the smell of hot sizzling food goes faster than cold food is because the kinetic energy of the particles of matter increases with the increase in temperature. So the particles in the smell of hot food have a higher kinetic energy and hence they move farther than those of cold food.

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