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Sand and talc are solids not liquids.
Yes an amount of sand will take the shape of the container it's in and will pour however you have to consider the actual grain of sand in determining it's state.
One grain of sand is a solid and does not take the shape of a container.
You could fill a bowl with peas and pour them out but this does not mean they are a liquid.

I might be a bit thick, but I thought that things were liquid until they got to freezing point, and then were solid. Things like jelly are plasmas (I think)

Definitely glass.

Theraputty

Freaky stuff..... Acts pike platform but when it's put in its tub it settles like a liquid. Id love to know what happens when it's left lying on a surface but I'm not sure ds1's OT would appreciate the mess experiment

Like playdoh.... Damn smartphone

Maybe they just mean everyday things that the children are familiar with both as a solid and a liquid - e.g. Water, egg, butter etc...I.e. sometimes solid and sometimes liquid.

Not a very well phrased question though.

The thing with corn flour is fun though

Also liquid crystals as in LCD screens

I think we might be over thinking this...

My father always taught me to answer the question a teacher actually asks, not what they meant to ask.

Graupel.

And no, he wasn't popular with his teachers and neither was I

Glass, the tar in tarmac.

Petrol
(surely it doesn't mean solid and liquid at the same time!)

rock

Glass (it's actually a liquid as it flows, albeit slowly, but feels solid)
A thixotropic mixture of cornflower and water (can't be compressed, but pours)

Poo?

toothpaste?

Gravy - liquid when I make it, solid when dh makes it.

Lava.

A slush Puppy

Brie.
Mercury.
That mixture you get when you mix cornflour with water?

I thought the 'glass is a liquid' thing had been disproved? It's thicker at the bottom in old buildings due to the process they used to use or something.

The only one I know is glass

Even if it is a liquid (which I got told was wrong in my science homework ) it's not also a solid. Is it not asking for substances that can be in more than one state? Water, petrol, rock,most plastics I imagine. Surely things can't be both a solid and a liquid at the same time.

love gravy , dependng on who makes it

Milk is a solid dispersed in a liquid (like emulsion). Is that what they are after?

custard!

but I've just realsed this thread is a few weeks old so, OP did you ever get the answer from the teacher?