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What is a change in shape or form?

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A change in state or form is a physical change (as opposed to a chemical change) of a material between a solid and a liquid, a liquid and a gas, and a gas and a plasma. Melting and boiling are changes of state. We melt ice to get water, and we heat water to create water vapor. Solid to liquid to gas. We can come back down the energy scale, too. We freeze water to form ice. Note that there are a couple of other states of matter. One is a plasma, which is a superheated state of matter where all the electrons have been stripped off the atoms involved and the whole system is in a very high energy state. The sun is a ball of plasma. Lightning creates plasma in the current path because it is so hot. We should also note that transitions don't necessarily occury directly in the chain of solid to liquid to gas and back down. Some solids will convert directly to a gas without melting, and dry ice (solid carbon dioxide) is an example. Also, an electric arc will convert solids in the arc directly to plasma because the heat is so intense.

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The change of phase or state is when a liquid, gas, or solid change its form! liquid can turn into a solid (ice) or a gas (steam). Gas can turn into a liquid (water).

But there are some exceptions to this rule , such as dry ice. Dry ice turns directly into a gas.

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A 4 x 4 is either a 4 wheeled vehicle or a piece of lumber that is approximately 4 inches wide by 4 inches tall and of varying length.

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