Why do tires go flat in the winter?
Chemistry For Your Life
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Is It a Pie Cast? Is It a Relic?
As we put energy into molecules, the reason things go from solid to a liquid to a gas as they heat up is that they have more energy and movement. If you're holding the number of molecules the same, the pressure and volume increasing is correlating to the temperature increasing. As it gets colder, air in your tires should stay in air because there's no water so it won't turn liquid or freeze. But if it starts to cool back down, the gas begins to come clo together, and they molecules have lower energy,. They have less movement, sometimes weaving at condensation. Ye, an air container with flexible walls can be used for this purpose. You don't know what kind
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