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National Science Education Standards
This activity addresses the following National Science Education Standards:

Physical Science: Structure and Property of Matter (Grades 5-8)
A substance has characteristic properties, such as density, a boiling point, and solubility, all of which are independent of the amount of the sample. A mixture of substances often can be separated into the original substances using one or more of the characteristic properties.

Physical Science: Structure and Property of Matter (Grades 9-12)
Solids, liquids, and gases differ in the distances and angles between molecules or atoms and therefore the energy that binds them together. In solids the structure is nearly rigid; in liquids molecules or atoms move around each other but do not move apart; and in gases molecules or atoms move almost independently of each other and are mostly far apart.

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