By combining clear overviews with photography and diagrams, this volume will ensure that students understand the basic properties and variability of solid matter.

Includes glossary and index.

Solids and atoms -- Solids have no flow -- Physical properties of solids -- Solids and shape -- Solids and volume -- Solids and density -- Freezing and melting solids -- Changing from a solid to a gas -- Solids and mixtures -- Solids really matter.