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MATTER IS ALL AROUND US!!!!

Matter is the air you are breathing
Matter is the computer you are reading from now.

Matter is the stuff you touch and see. And it is more.

Matter is defined as anything that has mass and takes up space.

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Matter that is composed of atoms packed tightly together are known as solids. You cannot walk through a solid wall. The matter is packed so tight that it prevents you from moving through it. Solids hold their shape at room temperature.

FOR EXAMPLE:

The pencil that you left in the desk at school will still be the same shape when you return tomorrow.

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MATTER IS FOUND IN THREE (3) MAJOR PHASES: 

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MATTER IS FOUND IN THREE (3) MAJOR PHASES: 

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SOLID, LIQUID, GAS

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Liquids do not hold their shape at room temperature. There is space between the atoms of a liquid and they move slightly all of the time.

Liquids flow or pour and can take on the shape of a container. If the liquid is poured into a wider or narrower container, the liquid will take on that new shape. Liquids are affected by gravity.

Liquids cannot be handed to another person well without the container.

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FOR EXAMPLE:

Imagine going into a restaurant and asking for lemonade. What if the waiter just put the lemonade into your hands ‐ no glass or cup? Could you lay the lemonade on the table to drink in a few minutes? Even water in a river or a lake has a container ‐ the banks, the bottom, the shore ‐ they form the container.

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Did you know...

That there are more phases of matter? We aren't as familiar with them nor do we see them every day. Some exist only in theory, others can be reproduced in laboratories, some are so new that scientists are still figuring out the details and others might exist, but have not yet been found in nature. They include: quark-gluon plasma's, Bose-Einstein condensates, fermionic condensates, strange matter, liquid crystals, quantum spin liquid (QSL), super fluids, super solids and the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases of magnetic materials.

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Gases not only do not hold their shape at room temperature, they don't even stay put. Gases are always moving.

There is so much space between the atoms in gas that you can move around in them easily.

FOR EXAMPLE:
When we compress air into a balloon ‐ it fills out the balloon shape. Gases will fill up the space too. You don't see only half of the balloon filled with air ‐ the air is not as influenced by gravity as a liquid or a solid would be.

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New theories and discoveries are happening all of the time, so you'll have to keep studying your physical science to learn more about these states of matter.