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‘I want to write a poem of a new class – a Don Juan, without the mockery and impurity,’ Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote to a friend in 1844, ‘and admitting of as much philosophical dreaming and ...

Solids, liquids and gases are called the three states of matter. Liquids can flow or be poured easily. They are not easy to hold. Liquids change their shape depending on the container they are in.