+209 Jell-O is amazing: it's a solid, it's a liquid, it's a viscoelastic polymer made out of polypeptide chains but you eat it, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's actually not a liquid; it's an amorphous solid.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

So it's solid and liquid. Like glass. The post is right because it stated both, implying that it has properties of both, and is therefore an amorphous solid.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's not a liquid. It's an amorphous solid. They are two different states of matter. It does not have characteristics liquids, which is by it's not a liquid.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

An amorphous sid has no crystalline structure which is a liquid trait. That's why people tout glass was liquid. An amorphous solid was once defined as a liquid with infinite viscosity.

by Anonymous 12 years ago