What are the different states of matter? How can you put out a fire? What happens when you cook food? Read about solids, liquids and gases. With engaging visuals, this book explores how materials can change from one state to another, and be mixed together to create new materials.

This book is part of the Science is Everywhere series, which demystifies the key science topics and shows how they relate to the world around us with fun, colourful graphics. These books are ideal for children aged 9 plus who are studying science, or for young readers who want to get to grips with science in a fun way.

This book is part of a book series called Science Is Everywhere .

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by Hachette Children's Group .

Rob Colson is an author and editor of a wide range of books for children and adults, including many natural history, maths and science titles. His previous titles as author include Ultimate Cars, Ultimate Machines (Wayland); Super Science (Franklin Watts); Bone Collection: Animals (Scholastic), and Puzzles, Conundrums and Enigmas (Parragon).

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Solid, liquid or gas?
• 2: Hard and soft
• 3: Crystals and glass
• 4: Hard as ice
• 5: Boiling point
• 6: Mix it up
• 7: Burn it!
• 8: Chemistry in the kitchen
• 9: High-energy matter
• 10: Moulding shapes
• 11: Super-strong materials
• 12: Smart materials
• 13: Quiz
• 14: Glossary
• 15: Index and Answers