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Tagged with:    [Post New]posted on 8 Jul 2008 00:38:35 IST    

There are a number of candidates for "fourth" phase - actually condensed matter physicists probably know about 20-30 different phases(determined by magnetic or electrical properties forexample - that is if you count insulators and metals asdifferent phases).  However, I believe the standard answeris that, as you heat things up, first they go from solid to liquid, then to gas, and finally to an ionized plasma.  And particle physicists would go beyond that to describe even higher temperatures when nuclear energies become comparable to the temperature, but such temperatures have not been reached here on earth (even fusion reactors just use the plasma phase and rely on relatively rare nuclear reactions).  Well maybe in some very high energy particle collisions...A plasma is just what happens when the temperature is so high that the atoms start to lose their outer electrons in collisions, and the plasma consists of positive ions and negative electrons moving about freely.


 


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deedee
deedee is offline comment by deedee    (posted on 8 Jul 2008 00:47:39 IST)
gud ......there's one more state of matter :: Single super atom state .....
at extremly low temp all atoms lose their identity and get condensed into a single entity behavin like a single super atom .........:)
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antonyajay21 is offline comment by antonyajay21    (posted on 8 Jul 2008 05:26:56 IST)
Gud one,yaar....
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rudra.panda is offline comment by rudra.panda    (posted on 8 Jul 2008 09:17:08 IST)
BEC (Bose- Einstein condensate)
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GoNik is offline comment by GoNik    (posted on 8 Jul 2008 09:27:45 IST)
gud one dude....u rock..
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