phase change
Matter transforms states
A phase change is a transformation of matter from one state to another—solid to liquid, liquid to gas, or the reverse.
Ice melting into water and water boiling into steam are phase changes.
The term appears in physics and chemistry but also figuratively for any fundamental shift in form or character: The company underwent a phase change when it went public.
- state of matterPhysical form of substance
- latent heatPhase transition thermal energy
- heat capacityEnergy to raise temperature
- condensationVapor turning to liquid
- supercoolingLiquid chilled below freezing
sublimation · evaporation · water cycle · heat transfer · cooling down · melting · vitrification · critical point · superheating · triple point · heat engines · crystallization · freezing · nucleation · frost formation · deposition · cloud formation · entropy
- heat transferconduction, convection, heat flow, heat transfer, conductors
- changesshift, alter, transformation, modify, transform
- heatheat transfer, thermal energy, heatwave, radiation, convection
- chemistryatom, atoms, organic chemistry, molecule, chemistry
- Heat conceptsmelting, evaporation, conduction, convection, boiling
- phase changessublimation, solidification, liquefaction, vaporization, freezing
phase changechemical reaction
Molecular bond rearrangement process
chemical change · nuclear reaction · combustion · oxidation · decomposition
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