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Sigma KEE - Fluid
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fluid
Fluid is an InternalAttribute of an Object that does not have a fixed shape and thus tends to flow or to conform to the shape of a container.
Relationships      
Children gasAn Object has the Attribute of Gas if it has neither a fixed volume nor a fixed shape.
 liquidAn Object has the Attribute of Liquid if it has a fixed volume but not a fixed shape.
 plasmaAn extremely energetic PhysicalState that consists of atomic nuclei stripped of electrons. That is, a plasma is composed of positive ions and free electrons. Plasma behaves differently enough from Gas that it is referred to as the fourth state of matter.
InstancesabstractProperties or qualities as distinguished from any particular embodiment of the properties/qualities in a physical medium. Instances of Abstract can be said to exist in the same sense as mathematical objects such as sets and relations, but they cannot exist at a particular place and time without some physical encoding or embodiment.
 attributeQualities which we cannot or choose not to reify into subclasses of.
 entityThe universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
 internal attributeAny Attribute of an Entity that is an internal property of the Entity, e.g. its shape, its color, its fragility, etc.
Belongs to Class entity


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