When ice melts, it goes from a solid straight to a liquid. Why isn’t there some sort of pasty intermediary state? If the states of matter are about the proximity of a body’s particles, then it’d make sense for the ice to get softer and softer until it turns to water, right?
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Matter has distinct forms based on temperature and pressure. Water can’t form ionic bonds unless it is cold enough with a high enough pressure. That formation of ionic bonds is the discrete change from liquid to solid.
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