How many states of matter exist?
1 Answer
Sep 11, 2016
At least
Explanation:
Rather than enumerate them all, note that there are
- Solid
- Liquid
- Gas
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Plasma
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#6# known non-classical states (e.g. liquid crystal) #8# known low temperature states (e.g. Bose-Einstein condensate a.k.a. BEC)#3# known high energy states (e.g. Degenerate matter (white dwarf and neutron star material))
Then there are
- Supersolid
- String-net liquid
- Superglass
- Dark matter
- Equilibrium gel
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_matter for more details.