Question

State the properties of all five states of matter?

Answer 1

Dear Student,
The properties of all the state of matter is written below:
Solid :

• Structural rigidity. i.e. they have definite shape.
• Resistance to changes of shape or volume and hence they are difficult to deform easily.
• They occupy a specific area and volume.

Liquid :

• They lack rigidity in shape. They take the shape of the container which contains them.
• They occupy a specific volume and generally do not expand to occupy the entire available volume under normal conditions.

Gas :

• They have no definite shape.
• Gases expand to occupy the entire available volume unlike solids and liquids.

Plasma : If the gas is made up of particles which carry an electric charge (" ionised particles "), but the entire gas as a whole has no electric charge, and if the density is not too high, then we can get the 4^thstate of matter - Plasma. It is the ionization of gas at higher temperatures.

Bose-Einstein Condensate : In a Bose-Einstein condensate, atoms can no longer bounce around as individuals. Instead they must all act in exactly the same way, and you can no longer tell them apart!