liquid state
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- noun
- /ˈlɪkwɪd steɪt/
- Specialized
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estado líquido
- The ice melted and turned into a liquid state in the sun.
If you try to rapidly pressurize a gas, you could sometimes avoid and not make your transition to the liquid state at the right pressure.
- If you try to rapidly pressurize a gas, you could sometimes avoid and not make your transition to the liquid state at the right pressure.
Examples
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With Jupiter being the largest planet in the solar system, its tidal stresses on Europa create enough heat to keep the water on Europa in a liquid state.
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Conventional metals are strong but challenging to process; in their solid state, they are too hard; in their liquid state, too soft.
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If we take hydrogen peroxide in the liquid state, it can break down to form water and oxygen.
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As water molecules condense into their liquid state, they gain order but lose kinetic energy.
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A fuel cell does the opposite: electricity is produced through the electrochemical recombination of hydrogen and oxygen gases to form water in its liquid state.
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I think it could happen in our very own universe if you made sure the coffee and milk were both completely sterile and uncontaminated so that they wouldn't spoil, and you could somehow keep it warm enough and pressurized so that it stayed in the liquid state.
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To achieve a homogeneous distribution of elements in the alloys, each alloy was remelted five times, flipped over for each melt, and kept in a liquid state for about 2 minutes during each melting process.
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So that the oxygen and hydrogen will remain in the liquid state, the shuttle needs an elaborate cooling system to keep the oxygen at 297 degrees Fahrenheit and the hydrogen at -423 degrees, just 50 degrees above absolute zero.
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When heated, the solid wax changed to a liquid state that can easily be poured.
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Water exists in a liquid state at room temperature, allowing life to thrive.
Synonyms
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1.0
A thing that flows, keeps its amount, and has no fixed shape
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How easily a substance like water or oil can flow
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How easily a substance flows like a liquid
How easily something flows
The quality of being able to flow or move smoothly
How Fluid
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'liquid state' is directly compositional: 'liquid' describes the kind of 'state', so a learner who knows 'liquid' (fluid) and 'state' (physical form) can infer it means the fluid physical form. This noun‑phrase composition is cross‑linguistically common and follows regular English patterns, making it immediately understandable to B1 learners.
Etymology
Liquid state comes from a simple image: a substance that can move and take the shape of its container. Here liquid points to 'flows' and state means 'condition', so the phrase now means the condition where something 'flows' but keeps the same amount.