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Matter — Definition & Overview
By Deena Hauze
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The unusual and well-known pitch drop experiment was used to figure out if pitch, a thick tar-like substance, is able to flow. In 1927, Professor Thomas Parnell put a piece of so-called "solid" pitch in a funnel and he waited. In 1938, the first drop fell. The experiment was a success!
Set-up of the pitch-drop experiment.
Image Source: John Mainstone derivative work: Amada44 CC-BY-SA-3.0 or GFDL, via Wikimedia Commons
From the information given above, what type of matter is pitch?