EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.

Detailed explanation-2: -Plasma is often called “the fourth state of matter, ” along with solid, liquid and gas. Just as a liquid will boil, changing into a gas when energy is added, heating a gas will form a plasma – a soup of positively charged particles (ions) and negatively charged particles (electrons).

Detailed explanation-3: -The three fundamental phases of matter are solid, liquid, and gas (vapour), but others are considered to exist, including crystalline, colloid, glassy, amorphous, and plasma phases. When a phase in one form is altered to another form, a phase change is said to have occurred.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are four phases: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Solids are composed of atoms that are tightly bound together, so they hold their shapes and have fixed volumes. Liquids are not held together as tightly as solids. A liquid conforms to the shape of its container, but the volume is still fixed.

Detailed explanation-5: -Three states of matter exist-solid, liquid, and gas. Solids have a definite shape and volume. Liquids have a definite volume, but take the shape of the container. Gases have no definite shape or volume.