Phase (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_(matter))at STP (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_conditions_for_temperature_and_pressure) | solid | Melting point | 1337.33 K (1064.18 °C, 1947.52 °F) | Boiling point | 3243 K (2970 °C, 5378 °F) | Density (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density)(near r.t.) | 19.30 g/cm3 | when liquid (at m.p.) | 17.31 g/cm3 | Heat of fusion | 12.55 kJ/mol | Heat of vaporization | 342 kJ/mol | Molar heat capacity | 25.418 J/(mol·K) | | [/size] | But I take your post to suggest that substances, solid gold included, have a characteristic, which you would label “gravitational friction”. That phrase would define the separation line between whether a substance would be solid or liquid, and would also require a variable that goes with it, i.e., a temperature scale.Then, could we say that the point where any substance would fall on the scale of “gravitational friction” would be at its melting point temperature at a given atmospherical pressure? |
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