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Can a solid be a fluid?

Updated: 8/9/2023
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13y ago

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No. However, there are substances that don't fit neatly into a solid/liquid dichotomy. Glasses, for example, are much more like solids than they are like liquids, but they do have some liquid-like characteristics. Liquid crystals are liquids that show some solid-like characteristics. Viscoelastic materials (Silly Putty is probably the best known example) are somewhere in between.

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Any solid can become a liquid or a gas with enough heat.

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12y ago

Yes because sand is a solid but behaves like a liquid

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6y ago

- a melted solid is a liquid
- under a high stress a solid can flow

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