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Post by kristine on Jun 6, 2010 12:03:43 GMT -5
so is plasma a gas or another state of matter entirely? From wiki. "In physics and chemistry, plasma is a gas in which a certain portion of the particles are ionized. The presence of a non-negligible number of charge carriers makes the plasma electrically conductive so that it responds strongly to electromagnetic fields. Plasma, therefore, has properties quite unlike those of solids, liquids, or gases and is considered to be a distinct state of matter" so there are 4 states of matter - solid, liquid, gas, and plasma? |
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Post by Bluefinger on Jun 6, 2010 12:12:07 GMT -5
From wiki. "In physics and chemistry, plasma is a gas in which a certain portion of the particles are ionized. The presence of a non-negligible number of charge carriers makes the plasma electrically conductive so that it responds strongly to electromagnetic fields. Plasma, therefore, has properties quite unlike those of solids, liquids, or gases and is considered to be a distinct state of matter" so there are 4 states of matter - solid, liquid, gas, and plasma? There's actually more than 4 states. There is things like degenerate matter (first few posts), Bose-Einstein Condensate, etc. Matter is weird. |
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Post by sonickid01 on Jun 7, 2010 22:46:40 GMT -5
The Fermi-Dirac (or Fermi-someone else, I believe it's Dirac since they did they statistics work or something like that) condensate is another kind of matter and is kind of like trying to make the Bose-Einstein Condensate with the wrong materials. B-E Condensates are made of atoms with a spin of an integer and the F-D Condensate is made up of stuff with non-integer spins, so they obey different rules and consequently the F-D Condensate is just really really really pressured. Not entirely relevant and not that cool if my understanding is right but if someone has more info on it, go for it.
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