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Name things that are solid AND liquid

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Frontpaw · 15/09/2012 23:05

So we found solid. We found liquid. Solid AND liquid? Oh come on??

Egg, paint, ice cream float?

This is junior school!

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ThisIsMummyPig · 21/09/2012 23:22

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)

stealthsquiggle · 21/09/2012 23:23

Definitely glass.

SummerRain · 21/09/2012 23:26

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

SummerRain · 21/09/2012 23:26

Like playdoh.... Damn smartphone

Himalaya · 21/09/2012 23:28

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 Grin

SummerRain · 21/09/2012 23:29

Also liquid crystals as in LCD screens

SloeFarSloeGood · 22/09/2012 00:09

I think we might be over thinking this...

SummerRain · 22/09/2012 00:44

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

DilysPrice · 22/09/2012 00:46

Graupel.

SummerRain · 22/09/2012 00:46

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

cairnterrier · 01/10/2012 19:25

Glass, the tar in tarmac.

InfinityWelcomesCarefulDrivers · 01/10/2012 19:29

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

InfinityWelcomesCarefulDrivers · 01/10/2012 19:29

rock

ouryve · 01/10/2012 19:31

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)

meditrina · 01/10/2012 19:32

Poo?

bumpybecky · 01/10/2012 19:34

toothpaste?

GoldPlatedNineDoors · 01/10/2012 19:44

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

Lava.

A slush Puppy

clam · 01/10/2012 19:49

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

DawnOfTheDee · 01/10/2012 19:53

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.

ValiumQueen · 01/10/2012 19:57

The only one I know is glass

InfinityWelcomesCarefulDrivers · 01/10/2012 22:18

Even if it is a liquid (which I got told was wrong in my science homework Angry) 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.

InfinityWelcomesCarefulDrivers · 01/10/2012 22:19

love gravy , dependng on who makes it :o

2beornot · 01/10/2012 22:30

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

sausagesandwich34 · 01/10/2012 22:32

custard!

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

converseconvert · 01/10/2012 22:34

Lava

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