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Originally Posted by CarolinaCalvinist  The molecules actually coexist in all three states, and variation in temperature or pressure of the slightest degree will cause them all to freeze, melt, or evaporate. |
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Originally Posted by Civbert Then the definitions of solid, liquid and gas are not mutually exclusive. The properties of the water must be interesting at the triple point since it fits all three definitions - behaving like a liquid and a solid and a gas all at once. |
Again we are talking about a
mixture of molecules. Together all of the molecules are behaving in all three modes but we are talking a portion of the molecules behaving as a gas etc. 1 molecule isn't in three states simulataneously. This would be more polytheistic? God cannot be divided into smaller parts. Whereas We can take water and break it down into water molecules and even Hydrogen and Oxygen atoms.