In terms of physically observing it, if the substance is a lions based substance, like oil or margarine, depending on the state, this will inform how well the hydrocarbons can pack together well or not, or will there be bends in the ring preventing the molecules from packing well.
Liquids are unsaturated
Solids are saturated.
Answer is: quark.
Quark is a type of elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter.
Quarks form composite hadrons (protons and neutrons). Protons and neutrons are in the nucleus of an atom.
Hadrons include baryons (protons and neutrons) and mesons.
There are six types of quarks: up, down, strange, charm, bottom, and top.