• Question: how Manny states of matter are their

    Asked by therussian to Asif, Laura, Lena, Sean, Viv on 17 Mar 2012.
    • Photo: Lena Ciric

      Lena Ciric answered on 17 Mar 2012:

      Apparently there are 24 (!!!):

      Solid
      Liquid
      Gas
      Plasma
      Quark-Gluon plasma
      Bose-Einstein condensate
      Fermionic condensate
      Strange matter
      Supersolid
      Superliquid
      String-net liquids
      Quantum Hall
      Quantum Spin Hall
      Degenerate matter
      Weakly symmetric matter
      Strongly symmetric matter
      Neutronium
      Electron-degenerate matter
      Colloid
      Supercritical fluid
      Liquid crystal
      Crystaline solid
      Amophous solid
      Gravitational Singularity

    • Photo: Sean Murphy

      Sean Murphy answered on 19 Mar 2012:

      Wow, that is many more than I thought! How many of these are theoretical?

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