Solids, liquids and gases. In a solid like this brick, the particles are regularly arranged touching their neighbours and move only by vibrating. This explains why solids have a fixed shape.

The particles of gases. In gases the particles are much further apart than in solids or liquids because theattraction between the particles is small. Thismakes gas even more mobile and fluid ...

At a certain point, the chains get tangled up in each other and lock together, and the suspension becomes an amorphous solid with liquid in the gaps between particles. While this kind of jamming ...

The liquid state of matter is an intermediate phase between solid and gas. Like the particles of a solid, particles in a liquid are subject to intermolecular attraction; however, liquid particles ...

The four fundamental states of matter are solid, liquid, gas and plasma, but there others, such as Bose-Einstein condensates and time crystals, that are man-made.

Water molecules, for example, will change from a solid state to a liquid state at temperatures over 0 degrees Celsius, and from a liquid to a gas at temperatures over 100 degrees Celsius.

In liquids, particles have weaker forces between them and, for that reason, they have a (mostly) constant volume but take the shape of the receptacle they are filling. Both gas and plasma have ...