Water as solid, liquid and gas?

Question

Is water the only substance that occurs naturally on earth as a solid, gas and liquid? Are there others?

Answer 1

Nice question. Let's see, carbon dioxide is a common gas, so now it's a matter of finding natural instances of liquid and solid carbon dioxide. As it turns out, some deep sea volcanoes are venting liquid carbon dioxide, and some diamonds have been found with soild carbon dioxide inclusions. Check the links below for those rare exceptions.

Answer 2

Water is a tasteless, odourless substance that is essential to all known forms of life and is known as the universal solvent. It appears colorless to the naked eye in small quantities. It covers nearly 70% of Earth's surface. The UN Environment Program estimates there are 1.4 billion cubic kilometres (330 million mi3)[1]of it available on Earth, and it exists in many forms. It appears mostly in the oceans (saltwater) and polar ice caps, but it is also present as clouds, rain water, rivers, freshwater aquifers, lakes, and sea ice. Water in these bodies perpetually moves through a cycle of evaporation, precipitation, and runoff to the sea. Clean water is essential to human life. In many parts of the world, it is in short supply. Significant quantities exist on the moons Europa and Enceladus. Thales of Miletus, an early Greek philosopher, known for his analysis of the scope and nature of the term "landscaping", believed that "all is water."

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Answer 3

Well, no. There's dry ice, for example, which is solid, frozen carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide can be compressed to a liquid. Most solids do melt to become liquids (like lava), and if heated even more, become gases.

Answer 4

every substance has a melting point, freezing, and boiling..

so every substance, or matter, can be in any of three states depeding upon the temperature.

Like, iron is solid, heat it.. it would melt.. and more heat it.. it would turn to gas.

Answer 5

i don't think so