Whenever I'm drinking a glass of water from now on, can I just imagine it's like a rave? Yeah. So when the temperature cools down, those water molecules, they're not dancing anymore. They actually line up in a very strict order. And this is how a lot of solids work. They're crystals. That's typically the difference between solids and liquids. Glass is weird because if you took a picture of glass on a molecular level, it looks like everyone's in a rave. It looks like all the molecules are disordered,. And yet it's a solid.
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