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When a liquid gives up its freedom and commits to a shape.
means The process of a substance changing from liquid (or sometimes gas) into a solid state, usually by cooling or loss of heat.
from Built from Latin 'solidus' (solid, whole, firm — the same root that gave us 'soldier,' originally a man paid in solid coin) plus the verb-forming '-fy' (from 'facere,' to make) and the noun suffix '-ation.' So literally, 'the making solid' — a sturdy, no-nonsense Latin compound assembled in English to describe exactly what it says.
- energy change
- releases heat instead of absorbing it
- molecular shift
- molecules lock into fixed, ordered positions
- same process
- freezing is just solidification for water
- volume quirk
- water expands solidifying, most substances shrink