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Friday May 24th 2013

Matter is the Stuff Around You

Matter is everything around you. Matter is anything made of atoms and molecules. Matter is anything that has a mass. Matter is also related to light and electromagnetic radiation. Even though matter can be found all over the universe, you usually find it in just a few forms. As of 1995, scientists have identified five states of matter. They may discover one more by the time you get old.

You should know about solids, liquids, gases, plasmas, and a new one called Bose-Einstein condensates. The first four have been around a long time. The scientists who worked with the Bose-Einstein condensate received a Nobel Prize for their work in 1995. But what makes a state of matter? It’s about the physical state of molecules and atoms.

Changing States of Matter

Elements and compounds can move from one physical state to another and not change. Oxygen (O2) as a gas still has the same properties as liquid oxygen. The liquid state is colder and denser but the molecules are still the same. Water is another example. The compound water is made up of two hydrogen (H) atoms and one oxygen (O) atom. It has the same molecular structure whether it is a gas, liquid, or solid. Although its physical state may change, its chemical state remains the same.

So you ask, “What is a chemical state?” If the formula of water were to change, that would be a chemical change. If you added another oxygen atom, you would make hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). Its molecules would not be water anymore. Changing states of matter is about changing densities, pressures, temperatures, and other physical properties. The basic chemical structure does not change.

3 Comments for “Matter is the Stuff Around You”

  • Lito Artavia says:

    Yo se lo que es la materia y lo que la compone.Me parece importante los estados de la materia(ya que son 5!).En mi opinion talves el estado mas ¨chiva¨ es el de boza-einstein ya que se invento o mejor dicho se descubrio por algunos quimicos tan solo hace algunos pocos años(la consideraron como una materia mas en 1995),lo que no entiendo es porque otros cientificos no la habian descubierto antes si todo el tiempo ha exisitido(no es como que ellos hayan creado una subtancia).En el punto de vista que yo lo veo no lo deberion haber llamado boza-einstein porque muchas personas tienen esos apellidos en cambio nadie tiene el apellido ¨liquido¨ o ¨gas¨, en mi opinion tuvo que haber sido un nombre no tan comun como un par de apellidos de quimicos.

  • roger rivera says:

    scientists say a theory that atoms and molecules are in our midst.scientists have identified five states of matter are solids, liquids, gases, plasmas and one Bose Einstein condensates.can last a long time the scientific
    work alot with Bose Einstein condensates, It is about the physical state of molecules and atoms.

  • Erny says:

    I think that everything has to be solid, liquid, or gas. It can’t be that an object, either a chair or us, can’t be made of matter. EVERYTHING has to be made of a matter. Even AIR is has matter. nothing we know doesn’t have matter. Am I right?


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