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quantum solid comparison table

Subject	has definition	is a kind of
solid	a high density collection of particle which do not move relative to one another (except for thermal oscillations)	phase of matter
quantum solid	A degenerate gas in which the densities are so great that the nuclei are fixed with respect to each other so that they resemble a crystalline lattice.	solid

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