section_path: Properties/States
section_name: States
paragraph_text: States
  
  Along with oxidane, water is one of the two official names for the chemical compound H O; it is also the liquid phase of H O. The other two common states of matter of water are the solid phase, ice, and the gaseous phase, water vapor or steam. The addition or removal of heat can cause phase transitions: freezing (water to ice), melting (ice to water), vaporization (water to vapor), condensation (vapor to water), sublimation (ice to vapor) and deposition (vapor to ice).