I don't want the definition. Is plasma a fourth state of matter? My class is conducting a lab in chemistry about the states of matter.
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u see,when a solid is heated to a certain extent it melts into liquid,and further heated it becomes a vapour,when it is heated to a greater extent,the molecules break up into atoms and atoms into very minute states.these form a cloud of particles which is called plasma.\n          for ex.,the temp. of stars is upto millions of degrees hence the plasma is present and also known as fourth state of matter.\n        i hope u got it!!!
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I don't know what everyone else here is on but we've had fusion (hydrogen) weapons for decades. Fusion weapons are capable of destroying planets as there is no real limit to how powerful they can be. There are more powerful alternatives however. Matter-Antimatter reactions can be made vastly more powerful then fusion reactions since the masses are completely transformed into energy whereas only a small portion of mass is converted into energy in fusion reactions. The problem of course is that anti-matter is annihilated upon exposure to any matter so storing it is the biggest problem in making such an idea practical and it would probably never make it to bomb form let alone the problems people have making 1/1000th of a milligram of the stuff for any sustained period.
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Are you referring to the exercise on this page:\nhttp://galileo.phys.virginia.edu/outreach/8thgradesol/PeriodicTable.htm\n\nI had never heard of that before (I teach chemistry); sounds like an amusing exercise! Only I can't see why they'd call Francium an element in group13 (IIIA) and period 4 when it is already a real element in group 1A, period 7! Good luck! I'm assigning Gas Law homework currently and have very little time, or else I'd do the exercise!
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energy is not a state o the matter - substance it's what the matter is made of
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Matter can exist in several different phases, according to particle density and energy density or alternatively pressure and temperature. These phases include gases, plasmas, liquids, fluids, superfluids, solids, and Bose-Einstein condensates.
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It's been said that any sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic.  Let's try a few of the older but lesser known ones:\n\nAbout 15/20 years ago material science came up with two new materials which are rather interesting.  The first is Aerogel, a solid which is lighter than air - it will float at room temperature.  The second is called Seagel which is about as heavy as plastic but is as strong as steel, it can be either transparent or opaque and your choice of electrially conductive or not.\n\nHow's that for a start?
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A ton. Let's take everyday physics first: The answer depends very much on how you define a state of matter. Glas is a good example: It feels like a solid, but it is not made up of crystals with atoms placed in a regular array like in a salt crystal and most other solid states. The atoms are randomly spread around more like in a liquid (in fact during many years a glass window will get thicker at the bottom than at the top, because glass is really a kind of liquid - a solid liquid if you wish). So you can call glass a differnent state if you wish.\n\nNow let's go to extremes:\nThe plasma state arises when the temperature gets so high that atoms cannot bind the electrons any more (so electrons and nuclei are floating freely around among each other). If you go to really really extremely high particle energies (so high that even modern particle accelerators can only barely make it) also the nuclei will finally be decomposed into constituents called quarks and gluons creating a new state called a quark-gluon plasma. More info:\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark_gluon_plasma\n\nIf you go to very very low temperatures quantum mechanical features of atoms begin to become important and a lot of new, interesting states of matter emerge (quantum mechanics is the physical laws valid on the atomic level. It is very different from Newtons laws). For instance liquid helium - when cooled below a critical point (which is about 2 K) - changes it state from a normal liquid to a so called superfluid liquid which among a lot of other interesting features does not experience any frictional forces (so it can crawl over the walls of a cup for instance). What goes on is that all the atoms (or at least many of them) unify and moves together - in a sense the collection of atoms behaves like it was only one atom. Such a collection of atoms behaving almost like a single atom is called a Bose-Einstein Condensate and it is clearly a new state of matter. Nowadays Bose-Einstein condensates of many different kind of atoms can be created in a controlled manner in modern laser laboratories. The Nobel prize in physics in 2001 was awarded for the first realization of this, a lot of information can be found on\nhttp://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2001\nIt is a similar phenomena that leads to superconductivity in some materials at very low temperatures, by the way. A lot of modern research deals with understanding exotic quantum states of matter and create them in laboratories.\nI hope the answer helps. I have tried to make it as understandable as possible, but quantum states of matter is a difficult topic.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(physics)\n\nGood question btw
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Personally I think the reason that there is less antimatter than matter has something to do with the arrow of time.  The last time I checked there was still not a very good explaination of why there is more matter than antimatter.  Its still an outstanding problem in physics.  Its a subject that, as a physicist, I'm very interested in.  Who knows, maybe you'll come up with an explaination.
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Blood plasma is the liquid component of blood, in which the blood cells are suspended. Serum is the same as blood plasma except that clotting factors (such as fibrin) have been removed. Blood plasma contains fibrinogen.\n\nPlasma resembles whey in appearance (transparent with a faint straw colour). It is mainly composed of water, blood proteins, and inorganic electrolytes. It serves as transport medium for glucose, lipids, hormones, metabolic end products, carbon dioxide and oxygen. (Oxygen transport capacity of plasma is much lower than that of the hemoglobin in the red blood cells; it may increase under hyperbaric conditions.) Plasma is the storage and transport of clotting factors and its protein content is necessary to maintain the oncotic pressure of the blood.\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_plasma
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It means its giving off energy and or sub atomic particles.\n\nThere are 4 types..  Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Neutrons
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Melting of any substance that contracts upon fusion by the application of pressure is called regelation.\n You might also look up the CLAUSIUS-CLAPEYRON EQN. in this regard.
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Not really, a solid is usually atoms packed closely enough together so that they bond and form a structure that is resistant to change. Blackhole cores are of collapsed matter: there are no atoms, protons or even quarks. Just like plasma isn't "gas," blackhole material isn't solid
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No...\nI don't know what it would be but I would not guess a plasma...
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Okay, let's try a summary.\n\nAll matter is made up of protons, electrons, and neutrons. However, the arrangement of the atoms and the movement of electrons different from one element to another.\n\nColors exist as different waves of light and energy are reflected or refracted through objects or mediums. Those objects or mediums are made up of different elements.\n\nIf there was no source of light, everything would be colorless or black (the absence of light).\n\n1) When a source of light is emitted, it passes through all sorts of atoms and the reflection and refraction of the light waves causes a separation of light waves. Certain waves produce certain colors. And since the world is not static and atoms are constantly moving, different combinations of atoms can "separate" certain colors.\n\n2) As electrons jump from orbitals to orbitals, energy is released. This is also a source of light waves and can be emitted from the atoms themselves (such as different colors in burning elements).\n\nAlso, there is strong trend to look at something known as "String Theory" in which scientists look smaller than an atom, smaller than a quark, to something known as "strings". These strings are constant strings (hence the name) of energy.\n\nHope that made sense.
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OK.  There was a discrepancy in the atomic mass of elements.  We have electrons, which have insignificant mass, and an equal number of protons (to make the atom neutral), but the atomic mass exceeds the sum of the masses of the protons + electrons.  So we hypothesize that there is another particle in the atom which has atomic mass roughly the same as a proton but no charge.\nIt makes sense that this particle is in the nucleus.\nBUT, we can't use magnetic properties to isolate this particle.  And an atom is pretty much indivisible.  So we must actually strip off the electrons AND the protons to isolate neutrons.  That's not easy.
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One property of matter is the electric charge. Most sub-atomic particles have either a positive (+) or negative (-) electrical charge. Those that don't are considered neutral. The most common charged particles are the electron and proton. Atoms with an excess of electrons are called negative ions. Those with missing electrons are called positive ions. There is an electrical field that flows between opposite charges, causing an electrical force. This results in an attractive force between the opposite charges and a repelling force between like charges.