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Liquid state   /lˈɪkwəd steɪt/   Listen
Liquid state

noun
1.
The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility.  Synonyms: liquid, liquidity, liquidness.






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"Liquid state" Quotes from Famous Books



... no pains to set forth all that pertains to its nature,—the manner of its production and support, and to explain how heat is sometimes found without light, and light without heat; to show how it can induce various colors upon different bodies and other diverse qualities; how it reduces some to a liquid state and hardens others; how it can consume almost all bodies, or convert them into ashes and smoke; and finally, how from these ashes, by the mere intensity of its action, it forms glass: for as this ...
— A Discourse on Method • Rene Descartes



Words linked to "Liquid state" :   liquidity, state, state of matter



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