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Will a solid eventually "evaporate" given sufficient time, like a liquid sitting at room temperature will?

I know that the molecules in, for example, room temperature water all have different energies. Some of the particles have enough energy to escape the liquid and phase change into vapour causing the overall mass of the liquid to decrease. Does this also occur with solids, albeit at a dramatically reduced rate? Do solids even have molecules at different energies in the same way liquids do?
gpt
Yes.  Solids also have nonzero vapor pressures and evaporate (this process is called sublimation).  One example of this can be found in your freezer: ice sublimes easily, so you can probably find "corroded" looking ice cubes and ice crystals/frost that have redeposited elsewhere in the freezer.