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Physical State Change of Matter

When temperature of matter is changed by changing its heat content, its state is observed to change at different pressures, as depicted in the following figure.  Condensation, sublimation, vaporization, melting, deposition and some other phenomena are observations of such phase change.

Source: https://socratic.org/questions/what-is-the-phase-diagram-for-water

Can this phenomenon be explained better by considering both gravitational repulsion and attraction forces?

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