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It is called "melting". It means that when a solid gets so hot, by the increase in Kinetic Energy that it contains, the atoms move around so much that the state of matter changes to a liquid, that is to say it undergoes a change of state. Further heating will change the liquid to a gas - another change of state.

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What are three kinds of changes in matter?

If we take solid, liquid and gas being the three main states of matter (plasma being an arguable fourth), then from solid to liquid, the process melting occurs, from liquid to gas evaporation or boiling (they are different things) occur. Then from gas to liquid condensation occurs and from liquid to solid freezing occurs.


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What is the state of matter from liquid to gas?

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Evaporation is the process where a liquid changes from it's?

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When a matter change from gas state to liquid state?

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