state_of_matter has definitions from the field of chemistry
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[ noun ] (chemistry) the three traditional states of matter are solids (fixed shape and volume) and liquids (fixed volume and shaped by the container) and gases (filling the container)

Synonyms

state

Examples

"the solid state of water is called ice"

Used in print

(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)

So we may conceive the coexistence of the infinite number of universal , apparently momentary states_of_matter , successive one_after_another in consciousness , but permanent each on its own basic phase of the progressive frequencies .

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