Geologically, ice is a mineral, aka a rock. If lava is just rock heated past its melting point, water is lava.
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If my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a bicycle
Henceforth, when walking on a frozen lake or river, one must declare that the floor is lava!
And thus when you sip on that ice tea in your hand, you are actually drinking liquid gold
Metal is also elastic.
But that doesn't mean metal is plastic or elastic in terms of material type, just the English sucks.
You're getting roasted but I understand your esoterica.
In some places, spaghetti meat sauce is gravy. Badabing!
ahgabagool!
It's the best version of plastic.
Ices are metals.
Shrimps is bugs
Perhaps you meant to say that ices are crystals?
No. In astronomy, everything heavier than hydrogen or helium is referred to as metals. So, a star's metallicity would be including carbon, oxygen etc.
In my country we refer to gravel roads as metalled roads, for no reason I can explain.
https://www.localsearch.com.au/guides/landscape-supplies/what-is-blue-metal
"It's called blue metal since it has a blue colour."
That explains the blue, but not the metal...