solidification
Liquid turning hard
Solidification is the process of becoming solid, or of making something solid.
Liquids solidify when cooled below their freezing point: the solidification of molten metal.
The word extends to abstractions—plans, ideas, or support can undergo solidification as they become fixed or definite: the solidification of their alliance.
Initial cluster formation
- latticeOpenwork of crossed strips
- crystalOrdered-atom solid
- facetsPolished gem surfaces
- symmetryInvariance under transformation
gemstones · geodes · minerals · quartz · diamonds · snowflakes · structure · hexagonal
Restoring health or preserving
- settingContext of events
- concreteSolid building mixture
- asphaltPetroleum-based paving material
- plasterWall-coating paste
resin · epoxy · polymerization · vulcanization · sintering · calcification · ossification · petrification
Water's solid form
- frostThin ice coating
- glacierSlow-moving ice mass
- frozenSolidified by extreme cold
- congealingThickening into solid
chill · winter · permafrost · subzero · refrigeration · cold · arctic · sleet
Mineral-binding of particles
- firmnessResistance to deformation
- permanenceQuality of lasting indefinitely
- rigidityState of being unbending
- steadinessState of being constant
strengthening · anchoring · entrenchment · fortification · reinforcement · stiffening · crystallizing · finalization
nucleation
Initial cluster formation
symmetry · gemstones · geodes · minerals · quartz · diamonds · snowflakes · structure · hexagonal · cubic
curing
Restoring health or preserving
plaster · resin · epoxy · polymerization · vulcanization · sintering · calcification · ossification · petrification · mineralization
ice
Water's solid form
congealing · chill · winter · permafrost · subzero · refrigeration · cold · arctic · sleet · hail
cementation
Mineral-binding of particles
- firmnessResistance to deformation
- permanenceQuality of lasting indefinitely
- rigidityState of being unbending
steadiness · strengthening · anchoring · entrenchment · fortification · reinforcement · stiffening · crystallizing · finalization · formalization
- thermal processesheating, burning, cooling, boiling, melting
- steelmakingblast furnace, molten steel, steel production, basic oxygen furnace, steel mills
- geological processesweathering, erosion, sedimentation, metamorphism, crystallization
- hardeninghardening, stiffening, rigidifying, setting, firming
- matter statesliquid state, plasma, vapor, gaseous, fluid
- phase changesphase transition, phase change, sublimation, liquefaction, vaporization
solidificationmelting
Solid-to-liquid transition
liquefaction · fusion · thawing · deliquescence · vaporization
solidificationliquefaction
Conversion to liquid state
disintegration · dissolution · liquefying · softening · loosening
solidificationdissolution
Breaking up completely
disintegration · fragmentation · dispersal · breakdown · destabilization