Definition of solid

[Rajnendra]

A closely packed volume of definite type of atoms.

[josiah_turner]

I agree with this definitions description of how a solid is the closest atoms are forced together, which I found to be missing in the video. However as the video points out, we have to stop thinking about atoms as atoms once they are inside a solid, because the system overall is better described with just the interactions between positive nuclei and negative electrons, rather than atoms.

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