"Solid state" Quotes from Famous Books
... which make up a very large part of the earth's crust, are not crystallized. Instead of having cooled from a liquid into a solid state, they have been slowly built up, bit by bit and grain upon grain, into their present form, through long ages of the world's history. The materials of which they are made were probably once, long, long ago, the crumblings from granite and other crystallized ... — Young Folks' Library, Volume XI (of 20) - Wonders of Earth, Sea and Sky • Various |