Question

The smell of hot sizzling food reaches you several meters away, but to get the smell of cold food you have to go close.

Answer 1

1. The smell of hot sizzling food reaches you several meters away but to take the smell of cold food you have to go close because particles of hot sizzling food possess large kinetic energy and diffuse in the air rapidly and reach several meters away whereas particles of cold food possess less kinetic energy and are not able to reach several meters away.
2. Particles of matter possess kinetic energy and keep moving constantly.
3. At lower temperatures, particles have low kinetic energy and thus move slowly.
4. Particles in cold food have low kinetic energy due to low temperatures.
5. At higher temperatures, particles have high kinetic energy and move faster hence, the particles of hot vapours from hot food move faster.