liquid

liquid, one of the three commonly recognized states in which matter occurs, i.e., that state, as distinguished from solid and gas, in which a substance has a definite volume but no definite shape.

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Molecular Structure of Liquids
• Properties of Liquids

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