Liquid State (Noun)
Meaning
The state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility.
Classification
Nouns denoting natural processes.
Examples
- At room temperature, water exists in a liquid state, allowing it to flow easily into a container.
- The experiment involved heating a solid to its melting point, at which it transitioned to a liquid state.
- In the liquid state, the metal could be poured into a mold to create a specific shape.
- The properties of a substance in a liquid state, such as density and viscosity, are important in various industrial applications.
- At high pressures and temperatures, some materials exist in a liquid state even if they would normally be solid at room conditions.