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Why are plasma and Bose - Einstein condensate considered 4 and 5 States of matter? After all these are gases which behave very differently when high energy and very low temperature are applied to them respectively.
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1. Plasma is the 4th state of matter because it is the most abundant state of matter in the universe. It is a hot ionized gas consisting of an equal number of positively and negatively charged ions. They are also strongly influenced by electric and magnetic field.
2. Bose-Einstein condenstate is the 5th state of matter. It is formed when bosons are cooled to temperature of 0 kelvin. Under this condition a large fraction of atoms come to lowest quantum state, at this point quantun effect becomes almost zero.
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1. Plasma is the 4th state of matter because it is the most abundant state of matter in the universe. It is a hot ionized gas consisting of an equal number of positively and negatively charged ions. They are also strongly influenced by electric and magnetic field.
2. Bose-Einstein condenstate is the 5th state of matter. It is formed when bosons are cooled to temperature of 0 kelvin. Under this condition a large fraction of atoms come to lowest quantum state, at this point quantun effect becomes almost zero.
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