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ShareA phase is a set of states of a macroscopic physical system that have relatively uniform chemical composition and physical properties (i.e.
See also:
density, crystal structure, index of refraction, and so forth).
The most familiar examples of phases are solids, liquids, and gases.
Less familiar phases include: plasmas and quark-gluon plasmas; Bose-Einstein condensates and fermionic condensates; strange matter; liquid crystals; superfluids and supersolids; and the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases of magnetic materials.
For more information about the topic Phase (matter), read the full article at Wikipedia.org, or see the following related articles:
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Solubility — Solubility is a chemical property referring to the ability for a given substance, the solute, to dissolve in a solvent. It is measured in terms of ... > read moreNote: This page refers to an article that is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the article Phase (matter) at Wikipedia.org. See the Wikipedia copyright page for more details.
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