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This class comprises portions or bunches of one or more materials, like a sea, a pile of wood, the flour I just bought and is in this bag, and the milk in this bottle, whose form is provided by the container or is not stable enough to provide persistent unity to the entity, but suffices to provide some kind of identity and is the object of discourse "in an identifiable way for an identifiable minimal time-span." (crm:E18 Physical Thing, v. 7.1.2).

This class, gathering identifiable amounts of solid, liquid or gazeiform matter, is thus defined as a specialization of the crm:E18 Physical Thing class and inherits all its properties. It allows to capture the information available about ephemeral but identifiable amounts of matter.

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