Solids, liquids and gases. In a solid like this brick, the particles are regularly arranged touching their neighbours and move only by vibrating. This explains why solids have a fixed shape. In a ...

The four fundamental states of matter are solid, liquid, gas and plasma, but there others, such as Bose-Einstein condensates and time crystals, that are man-made.

Scientists have observed transitions into and out of an exotic state of matter found between liquid and solid in 2-D materials (Sci. Rep. 2021, DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-80082-x). The hexatic phase ...

The cornstarch particles do not dissolve, but are suspended in the water. When the mixture is stirred or hit, the particles push together and make the liquid harder to move through. When the mixture ...

Solid, liquid, gas … and something else? While most of us learn about just three states of matter in elementary school, physicists have discovered several exotic varieties that can exist under ...

Its particles move freely and are very far apart, so there is a large increase of volume.The same mass of gas will have very much greater volume than the liquid, and so will have much lower ...