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Give reasons for the following observations
(a) The smell of lighted incrense stick spreads several metres away.
(b) A liquid has a fixed volume but not a fixed shape.
(c ) Ice floats over water.
(d) A wooden table is called a solid at room temperature.

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(a) This happens because of diffusion.
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