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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Well things don’t just all become a different state of matter at once or all together. It generally goes from the outside in. So the outter layer of the solid now becomes liquid and as it goes further and further in more melts and becomes liquid. Same with liquid to gas. The upper layer of the liquid evaporates and becomes a gas and slowly moves it’s way down.
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