Phase transition
TRANSITIONS BETWEEN SOLID, LIQUID AND GASEOUS STATES OF MATTER, AND, IN RARE CASES, PLASMA
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In chemistry, thermodynamics, and many other related fields, phase transitions (or phase changes) are the physical processes of transition between a state of a medium, identified by some parameters, and another one, with different values of the parameters. Commonly the term is used to refer to changes among the basic states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas, as well as plasma in rare cases.