Characteristics of matter?
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matter is something tht has mass and occupies space it exist in three state solid liquid and gas\n in solid state the intermolecular spaces a less and thus the object appears to be rigid\nthe liquid and gaseous state together r known as fluids.\nin liquid state the intermolecular spaces r relatively larger than solids hence they can flow.\nin gaseous state the molecules r very far apart fr each other.\n\nsome times matter exits in all three states simultaneouly at certain temperature and pressure this is know triple point of tht substance --- eg:- the triple ponit of water is 273.16K and 613pa of pressure ie water exists in all three states at this temperature and pressure.
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1) Solid\n2) Liquid\n3) Gas\n4) Plasmas: Normal and quark-gluon\n5) Strange Matter\n6) Liquid Crystals\n7) Supersolids and superfluids\n8) Magnetic: Paramagnetic and ferromagnetic\n9) Bose-Einstein Condensates
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Log on to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnet\n\nand check out Characteristics of magnetic materials
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Chemical properties are properties such as boiling point, freezing point, melting point, electronegativity, flammability, and so forth.  Physical properties are the ones the human senses can pick up with out having to change the chemical, such as taste, smell, sound.
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Matter and Anti-Matter
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Mass = Physical\nDensity = Physical\nBurns = Chemical\nCrystals = Physical\nBubbles = Physical
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Mass is the measurement of matter, usually in grams,\nkilograms, etc.\n\nMatter is any material found in the universe that is in one of three states- those being gas, liquid, or solid.\n\nThe law of conservation of matter and energy includes the\nassertion that there is a finite (limited) amount of matter and energy in the universe.\n\nMatter can be converted into energy (example: the sun\nconverts its matter into energy continuously in the process\nwe call nuclear fusion).
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All normal matter is composed of particles such as protons, neutrons and electrons, and all of these have the fundamental property of quantum mechanical spin. Spin gives each one of these particles an associated magnetic field. Because of this, and the fact that the average microscopic piece of matter contains huge numbers of these particles, it would be expected that all matter would be magnetic. Even antimatter would have magnetic characteristics. However, everyday experience shows that this is not the case.\n\nWithin each atom and molecule, the spin of each of these particles is highly ordered as a result of the Pauli Exclusion Principle. However, there is no long range ordering of these spins between atoms and molecules. Without long range ordering, there is no net magnetic field because the magnetic moment of each one of the particles is cancelled by the magnetic moment of other particles.\n\nPermanent magnets are special in that long range ordering does exist. The highest degree of ordering exists within magnetic domains. These domains can be likened to microscopic neighbourhoods in which there is a strong reinforcing interaction between particles, and as a result, a great deal of order. The greater the degree of ordering within and between domains, the greater the resulting field will be.
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The 4th state:\nThe 4th state of matter is called the plasma state, which is (in simple words) made of charged particles like electrons and ions. All ordinary stars are in the plasma state.\nThe 5th state:\nBeautiful filament-systems are often shown by the astonishing development of the modern astronomy. Most of these filaments have an exact circular cross section. Filaments have the same interesting characteristics from a diameter of 0.01 mm to that of many 1000 of light-years. Filaments are incorrectly seen to be of plasma, however, particles move in only one direction in them, often against gravity. In this non-thermal (fifth-) state of matter, particles have up to (10 to the power 16) -times higher energy than those in the hottest stellar plasma. The corona-problem and hundreds of other problems of astrophysics are solved at once.\nOnly six states of matter are possible (the zeroth state is of course the Bose-Einstein condensate state)!
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Chemistry is the study of the make-up and properties of matter.
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Metal\n\nChemical properties\n\nMost metals are chemically unstable, reacting with oxygen in the air to form oxides over varying timescales (for example iron rusts over years and potassium burns in seconds). The alkali metals react quickest followed by the alkaline earth metals, found in the leftmost two groups of the periodic table. The transition metals take much longer to oxidise (such as iron, copper, zinc, nickel). Others, like palladium, platinum and gold, do not react with the atmosphere at all. Some metals form a barrier layer of oxide on their surface which cannot be penetrated by further oxygen molecules and thus retain their shiny appearance and good conductivity for many decades (like aluminium, some steels, and titanium). The oxides of metals are basic (as opposed to those of nonmetals, which are acidic), although this may be considered a rule of thumb, rather than an absolute condition.\n\nPainting or anodising metals are good ways to prevent their corrosion. However, a more reactive metal in the electrochemical series must be chosen for coating, especially when chipping of the coating is expected. Water and the two metals form an electrochemical cell, and if the coating is less reactive than the coatee, the coating actually promotes corrosion.\n\nPhysical properties\n\nTraditionally, metals have certain characteristic physical properties: they are usually shiny (they have "lustre"), have a high density, are ductile and malleable, usually have a high melting point, are usually hard, and conduct electricity and heat well. However this is mainly because the low density, soft, low melting point metals happen to be reactive, and we rarely encounter them in their elemental, metallic form. Metals conduct sound well, that is, they are sonorous.\n\nThe electrical and thermal conductivity of metals originate from the fact, that in the metallic bond the outer electrons of the metal atoms form a gas of nearly free electrons, moving as an electron gas in a background of positive charge formed by the ion cores. Good mathematical predictions for electrical conductivity, as well as the electrons' contribution to the heat capacity and heat conductivity of metals can be calculated from the free electron model, which does not take the detailed structure of the ion lattice into account.\n\nWhen considering the exact band structure and binding energy of a metal, it is necessary to take into account the positive potential caused by the specific arangement of the ion cores - which is periodic in crystals. The most important consequence of the periodic potential is the formation of a small band gap at the boundary of the brillouin zone. Mathematically, the potential of the ion cores is treated in the nearly-free electron model.\n\nNonmetal\n\nMost nonmetals are found at the upper right of the periodic table. The exception is hydrogen, which is usually placed at the upper left with the alkali metals, but behaves like a nonmetal under most conditions. Unlike metals, which are electrically conductive, nearly all nonmetals are either insulators or semiconductors. Graphite, an allotrope of carbon, is an example of a nonmetal that does conduct electricity. Nonmetals may form ionic bonds with metals by gaining electrons, or covalent bonds with other nonmetals. The oxides of nonmetals are acidic.\n\nThere are only eighteen known nonmetals, compared to over eighty metals, but nonmetals make up most of the earth, particularly in the outer layers. Organisms are composed almost entirely of nonmetals. Many nonmetals (hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine) are diatomic, and most of the rest are otherwise polyatomic.\n\nMetalloid\n\nTogether with the metals and nonmetals, the metalloids (in Greek metallon = metal and eidos = sort) form one of the three categories of chemical elements as classified by ionization and bonding properties. They have chemical properties intermediate between those of metals and no
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what are the properties of minerals?\n...\nsorry thats all i got
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Solid\nLiquid\nGas\n\nThere is one more, actually. Its called Plasma
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There are five main states of matter. Solids, liquids, gases, plasmas, and Bose-Einstein condensates are all different states of matter. Each of these states is also known as a phase. Elements and compounds can move from one phase to another phase when special physical forces are present. One example of those forces is temperature. The phase or state of matter can change when the temperature changes. Generally, as the temperature rises, matter moves to a more active state.
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the three properties of earth science are gas, liquid, and, solid. wind (or air moving quickly) is a gas.
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it doesnt satisfy the qualities of being a matter, like having mass and volume, but it does have particles called photons, light behaves like a particle at times and sometimes as a wave
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a physical property is something you can see or measure.  stuff like temperature, or color.