How can some things like apples, cucumbers or the human body can contain so much water (86%, 96%, 60% respectively), but obviously not be in a mostly liquid state? How isn’t the minority of solid matter floating around in all that water?

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How can some things like apples, cucumbers or the human body can contain so much water (86%, 96%, 60% respectively), but obviously not be in a mostly liquid state? How isn’t the minority of solid matter floating around in all that water?

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Have you ever seen a sandbag pile? Sand is grainy and doesn’t form ‘solid’ structures. Put it in a bag and suddenly it can’t move very far. You can build walls with it. Glue those sandbags together and you can create solid objects.