Matter {solid phase}| can be firm, be incompressible, have local and global order, have no flow, and have no expansion to fill volume.
crystal
Most solids are crystals. Crystals can be cubes, prisms, rhomboids, parallelepipeds, hexagons, or diamonds.
types
Elements {molecular elemental solid} can have molecules bound by weak van der Waals forces. Metal elements {metallic elemental solid} have atoms bound with metallic bonds. Non-metal elements {non-metallic network elemental solid} have each atom covalently bound to four or less atoms, in covalent-bond crystal lattices. Salts {ionic solid} can have ionic bonds between ions. Salts {polar solid} can have dipole-dipole bonds between polar molecules.
oscillations
Solid molecules vibrate and rotate but do not translate to new positions. Solids can transmit pressure in force direction but cannot cause pressure.
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