Answer to Question #76190 in General Chemistry for Adho

Question

Compare the movement and arrangement of the molecules in solid nitrogen to those in nitrogen gas

Answer 1

Nitrogen molecules in solid nitrogen would vibrate about fixed positions close together in the regular lattice and have weak intermolecular forces holding the molecules together.

However, in nitrogen gas the nitrogen molecules would be traveling in random directions at high speed and far apart. There is no arrangement of the molecules, they move randomly.