In this task, you are given a question and answer for that. The answer will fill in the blank or will complete the unfinished question. Your task is to provide an explanation based on the given question or fill-in-the-blank statement, and answer.

[Q]: Question: John turned up the thermostat in his room. As the temperature of the room got higher, would the air pressure in the room 
 Answer: decrease?
[A]: Decreasing air temperature increases atmospheric pressure.


[Q]: Question: When quarks are taken further apart, they experience minimal attraction, but when they're brought together, they have an attraction that is 
 Answer: smaller
[A]: Gluons make quarks attract each other more strongly the farther apart the quarks get.


[Q]: Question: If Milo removes carbon atoms from his alkane while working in his science lab, what happens to the melting point of that alkane? 
 Answer: decreases
[A]:
Alkanes with more carbon atoms have higher boiling and melting points, so some of them are solids at room temperature.