Which of the following shows that there is space between the particles of matter?

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Dissolving lemon juice and salt in water to make lemonade.

Adding tea leaves to water.

Making orange juice.

dilution of potassium permanganate solution

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One of the properties of matter around us is that there are spaces between the particles of matter.

Thus, when lemon juice and salt are added to water to make lemonade, the particles of lemon juice and salt get evenly distributed and occupy the space between the particles of water.

Hence, this shows that there is enough space between the particles of matter.

On the other hand, tea leaves do not disappear when added to water, so they do not show anything about the space between the particles.
The making of orange juice just extracts the juice from fruits and does not show anything about spaces between the particles.
Potassium Permanganate or KMnO4 is soluble in water. The particles take up intermolecular space between the water molecules and are very small.

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