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Physical change   /fˈɪzɪkəl tʃeɪndʒ/   Listen
Physical change

noun
1.
A change from one state (solid or liquid or gas) to another without a change in chemical composition.  Synonyms: phase change, phase transition, state change.






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"Physical change" Quotes from Famous Books



... in regions out of sight, must count with him as but a dim problem. The bold mental flight of the old Greek master from the fleeting, competing objects of experience to that one universal life, in which the whole sphere of physical change might be reckoned as but a single pulsation, remained by him as hypothesis only—the hypothesis he actually preferred, as in itself most credible, however scantily realisable even by the imagination—yet still ...
— Marius the Epicurean, Volume One • Walter Horatio Pater

... is forgotten even in the traditions of the oldest historical nations. The name and fame of them had utterly vanished until a few years back; and the amount of physical change which has been effected since their day, renders it more than probable that, venerable as are some of the historical nations, the workers of the chipped flints of Hoxne or of Amiens are to them, as they are to ...
— Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews • Thomas Henry Huxley

... first—the very first little quiver of life that the grain of wheat must feel after it is sown, when it answers to the call of the sun, down there in the dark of the earth, blind, deaf; the very first stir from the inert, long, long before any physical change has occurred,—long before the microscope could discover the slightest change,—when the shell first tightens with the first faint premonition of life? Well, it is something as illusive as that." He paused again, dreaming, ...
— The Octopus • Frank Norris



Words linked to "Physical change" :   vapor, phase change, freezing, vaporization, melt, thaw, phase transition, natural action, evaporation, thawing, natural process, liquefaction, freeze, vaporisation, activity, action, melting, vapour



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