A substance X is highly compressible and could easily be liquefied. It could also take the shape of the container. Predict the nature of the substance. List any two properties of substance X other than those already mentioned.

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From the above-mentioned properties, we can say that the substance X is gas because:
Gases are highly compressible and could easily be liquefied.
Gases do not have a definite shape, they occupy the shape of the container in which they are kept.
There are some other properties of substance X:
The substance X is not rigid and it has large interparticle spaces.
The substance X possesses high kinetic energy because the force of attraction between the particles is negligible.

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