"Solid state" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from one point of the ice to another; immediately the pressure comes on the ice it turns to water. It takes the requisite heat from itself in order that the change of state may be accomplished. So soon as the skate passes on, the water resumes the solid state. It is probable that there is an instantaneous escape, and re-freezing of some of the water from beneath the skate, the skate instantly taking a fresh bearing and melting more ice. The temperature of the water escaping from beneath the skate, or left behind by it, immediately ...
— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly
... known that the melting points of metals, including rocks, increase with increase of pressure; and although the temperatures in the Earth's interior are very high, it is easy to conceive that the materials of the Earth's interior are nevertheless in the solid state, or that they act like solids, because of the high pressures to which ...
— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86
... together, and the heat vibrations which tend to throw the molecules farther asunder, there seems to be an incessant battle. If cohesion prevails, the molecules are held for the time into a relatively fixed system, which we term the solid state. If the two forces about balance each other, the molecules move among themselves more freely but maintain an average distance, and we term the condition the liquid state. But if the heat impulse preponderates, the molecules (unless restrained from without) fly farther and farther asunder, moving ...
— A History of Science, Volume 5(of 5) - Aspects Of Recent Science • Henry Smith Williams
... under proper conditions take a crystalline form. The great condition is the passage from the fluid into the solid state. When such is brought about by electricity in any way, the term electric crystallization may be applied to the phenomenon. A solution of silver nitrate for instance, decomposed by a current, may ...
— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone |
