13.3. Solids http://www.ck12.org
- You can see a crystalline solid form in your kitchen by growing rock candy. Find this activity at http://www.a
mnh.org/explore/ology/earth/?pop=29446#http://www.amnh.org/ology/features/stufftodo_earth/rockcandy_main
.php.
18.4 References
For the table above (Table13.2),
- All diagrams created by CK-12 Foundation - Christopher Auyeung. CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0.
- Pyrite: Teravolt. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pyrite_Cubes.JPG. CC-BY 3.0.
- Tetragonal: Courtesy of the "Minerals in Your World Project" by the US Geological Survey and the Mineral
Information Institute. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WulfeniteUSGOV.jpg. Public Domain. - Christoph Radtke. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aragonite_-_crystal_ball.jpg. Public Domain.
- Stephanie Clifford (Flickr: sdixclifford). http://www.flickr.com/photos/30486689@N08/3561497998/. CC-
BY 2.0. - Mike Beauregard (Flickr: subarcticmike). http://www.flickr.com/photos/31856336@N03/3108675089/. CC-
BY 2.0. - Courtesy of the "Minerals in Your World Project" by the US Geological Survey and the Mineral Informa-
tion Institute. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Feldspar%28Microcline%29USGOV.jpg. Public
Domain. - Parent Géry. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:H%C3%A9liodore2%28Russie%29_.jpg. Public
Domain.
Points to Consider
As part of the discussions about the three states of matter, you have seen how matter undergoes changes from one
state to another.
- Under what conditions of temperature and pressure do the various changes of state occur?
- What is a phase diagram, and how can it be used to understand the nature of a given substance?