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No. Photons, the particles that make up a beam of light, have no rest mass, so they can't be considered "matter" by any reasonable definition.

They do have a relativistic mass m = hv/c2 (that "v" should be the Greek letter nu), but that's not the same thing.

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in my chemistry class i heard my teacher say that its not because matter only comes in solids in liquids or in gases the 2 states of matter.
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