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Understanding States of Matter

There are five main states of matter: solids, liquids, gases, plasmas, and Bose-Einstein condensates. Gases are highly compressible, exert pressure equally in all directions, have lower density than solids and liquids, and assume the volume and shape of their container. Liquids have stronger intermolecular forces than gases, resulting in denser molecules with little empty space between them. Solids have a definite volume and shape, as their molecules are very closely packed with strong intermolecular forces, expanding when heated and contracting when cooled. Plasmas are similar to gases but with some particles ionized, turning it into a charged plasma containing positive ions and negative electrons or ions. B

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Understanding States of Matter

There are five main states of matter: solids, liquids, gases, plasmas, and Bose-Einstein condensates. Gases are highly compressible, exert pressure equally in all directions, have lower density than solids and liquids, and assume the volume and shape of their container. Liquids have stronger intermolecular forces than gases, resulting in denser molecules with little empty space between them. Solids have a definite volume and shape, as their molecules are very closely packed with strong intermolecular forces, expanding when heated and contracting when cooled. Plasmas are similar to gases but with some particles ionized, turning it into a charged plasma containing positive ions and negative electrons or ions. B

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States of Matter

There are five main states of matter. Solids, liquids, gases, plasmas, and Bose-Einstein condensates (BEC) are all different states of matter. THE GASEOUS STATE This is the simplest state of matter. Throughout our life we remain immersed in the ocean of air which is a mixture of gases. We spend our life in the lowermost layer of the atmosphere called troposphere, which is held to the surface of the earth by gravitational force. The thin layer of atmosphere is vital to our life. It shields us from harmful radiations and contains substances like dioxygen, dinitrogen, carbon dioxide, water vapour, etc. Gases are highly compressible. Gases exert pressure equally in all directions. Gases have much lower density than the solids and liquids. The volume and the shape of gases are not fixed. These assume volume and shape of the container. Gases mix evenly and completely in all proportions without any mechanical aid. LIQUID STATE Intermolecular forces are stronger in liquid state than in gaseous state. Molecules in liquids are so close that there is very little empty space between them and under normal conditions liquids are denser than gases. SOLID STATE Solids are basically objects, such as a rocks and humans. They have a definite volume and shape. They cannot be compressed as the molecules in a solid are very closely packed due to strong intermolecular forces that bonds the molecules together. They expand when heated and contract when cooled. When heated, the molecules vibrate the more and more vigorously in their places when the temperature increases.

PLASMA STATE plasma is a state of matter similar to gas in which a certain portion of the particles are ionized. Heating a gas may ionize its molecules or atoms (reduce or increase the number of electrons in them), thus turning it into a plasma, which contains charged particles: positive ions and negative electrons or ions. Ionization can be induced by other means, such as strong electromagnetic field applied with a laser or microwave generator, and is accompanied by the dissociation of molecular bonds, if present.

BOSE-EINSTEIN CONDESATE STATE state of matter of a dilute gas of weakly interacting bosons confined in an external potential and cooled to temperatures very near absolute zero (0 K or 273.15 C[1]). Under such conditions, a large fraction of the bosons occupy the lowest quantum state of the external potential, at which point quantum effects become apparent on a macroscopic scale. These effects are called macroscopic quantum phenomena.

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