Jello. Liquid or solid?

What's the ambient temperature?

That's like asking if a tree is a fungus or an animal.

Jello is one of the four basic states, so it can't be contained within another state.

Jello itself is one of the four basic states? What state is it?

Did you know you can have solids that display superfluid states?

Pure Helium (no isotopes) below 4 celcius displays superfluidity whilst a solid - wierd huh?

You know, the basic states, like liquid... gas... Jello... solids...

Maybe there are five now, but those are the four they taught when I was in school.

Seven states of matter actually (within a relativistic framework) - don't forget plasma and bose-einstein condensates...

but fluidity and state apparently isn't as tighly linked as some might have suspected!

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/science/july-dec03/nobel_10-07.html

JIM LEHRER: Now, the Nobel prize in physics, and to Ray Suarez.

RAY SUAREZ: Today's prize went to three scientists for their work in quantum physics, specifically how atoms and electrons behave in extremely low temperatures. Alexei Abrikosov and Vitaly Ginzburg were honored for their theories about superconductivity. That occurs when electrical current is able to pass through metal without resistance. Tony Leggett was given his award for work on super fluidity. That's what happens to liquid helium when it's chilled to a temperature near absolute zero. Tony Leggett joins us this evening from the University of Illinois at the Urbana-Champaign campus, where he teaches. Welcome to the program and congratulations.


Super fluidity is actually a complex of phenomena which sometimes are observed in liquids under conditions of very low temperature. Perhaps the most striking phenomenon which is most easily observed in Helium 4 is that the liquid can actually flow through very small pours or capillaries without apparent friction but there are a whole lot of other phenomena associated with it. For example, if you put super fluid helium in a bucket and rotate the bucket then unlike water it won't retain with the bucket. It will stay at rest in the laboratory.

Or superfluid solids...

http://www.felixonline.co.uk/v2/article.php?id=1356

Re: Jello. Liquid or solid?


How much Vodka have you mixed with it?