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- 1From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)The states in which matter can exist: as a solid, liquid, or gas. When temperature changes, matter can undergo a phase change, shifting from one form to another. Examples of phase changes are melting (changing from a...
- 2From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)In physics, something that has mass and is distinct from energy. (See phases of matter.)...
- 3From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)In physics and chemistry, the conversion of a solid or a liquid into a gas. (See boiling point, phases of matter, and sublimation.)...
- 4From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)The temperature at which a material changes from a gas to a liquid; the same as the boiling point. (See phases of matter.)...
- 5From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)Pronunciation: (sub-luh-may-shuhn) In chemistry, the direct conversion of a solid into a gas, without passage through a liquid stage. (See phases of matter.)...
- 6From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)In physics, one of the phases of matter. The atoms or molecules in gases are more widely spaced than in solids or liquids and suffer only occasional collisions with one another....
- 7From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)The temperature at which a liquid changes into a solid; the same temperature as the melting point. (See phases of matter.) Water freezes at thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit or zero degrees Celsius....
- 8From:The Gale Encyclopedia of Science (Vol. 3. 6th ed.)A gas is one of the four phases of matter, with the other phases being plasma, liquid, and solid. These four phases are distinct with regard to certain properties. The fundamental physical properties of a gas are related...
- 9From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)The temperature at which a given material changes from a solid to a liquid, or melts; the same temperature as freezing point. (See phases of matter.) Ice melts at thirty-two degrees Fahrenheit or zero degrees...
- 10From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)The temperature at which a given material changes from a liquid to a gas. The boiling point is the same temperature as the condensation point. (See phases of matter.) Water boils at 212 degrees Fahrenheit or 100...
- 11From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)In physics, the temperature at which all three phases of matter (solid, liquid, and gas) for a given substance can coexist. The triple point for water is a little above the freezing point, and is used to define...
- 12From:The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (3rd ed.)The heat released or absorbed when matter undergoes a change of phase (see phases of matter). If the heat is given off during the change from a liquid to a solid, it is called heat of fusion. If it is given off during...