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Not a liquid or a gas?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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12y ago

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Plasma

In physics and chemistry, plasma is a partially ionized gas, in which a certain proportion of electrons are free rather than being bound to an atom or molecule. The ability of the positive and negative charges to move somewhat independently makes the plasma electrically conductive so that it responds strongly to electromagnetic fields. Plasma therefore has properties quite unlike those of solids, liquids, or gases and is considered to be a distinct state of matter. Plasma typically takes the form of neutral gas-like clouds, as seen, for example, in the case of stars. Like gas, plasma does not have a definite shape or a definite volume unless enclosed in a container; unlike gas, in the influence of a magnetic field, it may form structures such as filaments, beams and double layers.

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8y ago

The following don't fit into the categories of solid, liquid, or gas:

  • liquid crystals
  • gel
  • plasma
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12y ago

solid, or plasma (superheated gas),...... did they decide that theres also supersolid?

sun is like a plasma because it is a super heated ball of gas

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14y ago

Silly putty and glass (they are both amorphous solids)

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13y ago

Only Plasma qualifies. It is matter stripped of its' electrons.

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13y ago

Liquid cant spread like gas and gas spreads

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11y ago

Plasma is also a state of matter containing ions in very high temperature.

there is also Bose-Einstein condensate as the fifth state of matter.

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