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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why are there so few elements that are liquid at room temperature?

118 elements and only two are liquid at room temp... what makes the liquid state so rare?
gpt
Because in order to have a 'room' you need to have solid elements?

More seriously, this should be seen the other way around: life has developped on earth because Earth has a good balance of solid/liquid/gaseous elements.

Additionally, the liquid phase can be seen as an intermediate between solid and gaseous phases. The temperature limits for liquids are bounded by the melting and boiling points, while gaseous states are not bounded in high temperatures and solid states only bounded by the absolute zero.