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State of matter   /steɪt əv mˈætər/   Listen
State of matter

noun
1.
(chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container).  Synonym: state.





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"State of matter" Quotes from Famous Books



... tendency, when intercepted, is to spread out in the two dimensions of a plane—as in the case of a griddle cake; while a gas expands universally in all directions, as shown by a soap-bubble. It is a reasonable inference that the fourth state of matter, the corpuscular, is affiliated to some four-dimensional manner of extension, and that there may be states beyond this, involving even ...
— Four-Dimensional Vistas • Claude Fayette Bragdon


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