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ShareA liquid is one of the three ordinary phases of matter.
It is a fluid whose shape is usually determined by the container it fills.
Its volume is fixed under conditions of constant temperature and pressure.
For more information about the topic Liquid, read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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Boiling point — The boiling point of a substance is the temperature at which it can change its state from a liquid to a gas throughout the bulk of the liquid. A ... > read more
Boiling — Boiling is the rapid vaporization of a liquid, which typically occurs when a liquid is heated to a temperature such that its vapor pressure is above ... > read more
Surface tension — Surface tension is an effect within the surface layer of a liquid that causes the layer to behave as an elastic sheet. It is the effect that allows ... > read more
Phase (matter) — A phase is a set of states of a macroscopic physical system that have relatively uniform chemical composition and physical properties (i.e. density, ... > read more
Supercooling — Supercooling is the process of chilling a liquid below its freezing point, without it becoming solid. A liquid below its freezing point will ... > read more
Chemical compound — A chemical compound is a chemical substance consisting of two or more different chemically bonded chemical elements, with a fixed ratio determining ... > read more
Viscosity — Viscosity is a measure of the resistance of a fluid to deformation under shear stress. It is commonly perceived as "thickness", or resistance to ... > read more
Evaporation — Evaporation is one of the two forms of vaporization. It is the process whereby atoms or molecules in a liquid state (or solid state if the substance ... > read more
Superheating — In physics, superheating (sometimes referred to as boiling retardation, boiling delay, or defervescence) is the phenomenon in which a liquid is ... > read more
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