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What are physical properties?
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mass, weight, volume, density
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What are phases?
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An important physical property of matter.
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What is a solid?
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Pencil, cube of sugar, a metal coin, ice cream cone
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What is crystal?
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Particles making up the solids are arranged in a regular repeating pattern called a crystal.
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What is a liquid?
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Particles in a liquid aren't close together so they can move freely. No definite shape.
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What is a gas?
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A phase of matter, that does not have a definite shape or a definite volume.
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What is plasma?
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Plasma is very rare. It is actually one of the most common phases in which matter is found.
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What is melting?
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Its the change of a solid to a liquid.
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What is the melting point?
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The temperature at which a solid changes to a liquid.
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What is freezing?
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A liquid changing to a solid.
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