freezing
Sign in to savethumb|Water dripping from a slab of [[ice and then freezing, forming icicles]] Freezing is a phase transition in which a liquid turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point.
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Freezing is the process where a liquid turns into a solid when cooled below a certain temperature, called its freezing point. This matters because freezing is fundamental to how water becomes ice, how food is preserved, and how many natural and industrial processes work.
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- Crystallization
- Supercooling
- Exothermicity
- Vitrification
- Freezing of living organisms
- Bacteria
- Plants
- Animals
- Food preservation
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thumb|Water dripping from a slab of [[ice and then freezing, forming icicles]] Freezing is a phase transition in which a liquid turns into a solid when its temperature is lowered below its freezing point.
For most substances, the melting and freezing points are the same temperature; however, certain substances possess differing solid-liquid transition temperatures. For example, agar displays a hysteresis in its melting point and freezing point. It melts at and solidifies from .