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CrustalTrudger t1_j6mx7hi wrote

This is actually kind of a misleading "clarification" though. Pitch is a useful example, i.e., a viscoelastic solid that will deform on long time-scales under its own weight. At room temperature and timescales sufficiently short (i.e., less than a few years), pitch would meet the simple definitions of a "solid", but observed on long enough time scales, it can be observed to flow.

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