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Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Many other states are known such as Bose–Einstein condensates and neutron-degenerate matter but these only occur in extreme situations such as ultra cold or ultra dense matter.
Yup!
Really we should talk about quasi particles too. Not exactly a state of matter but stuff like polaritons blur a few lines.
My brain is already hurting from all the things I thought were truths when I was younger just to find out that they purposely teach us wrong because to teach us correctly is too hard?!?
no, because it's everything is ludicrously complicated and the nuance often doesn't apply in the majority of cases or understanding it is contingent on knowledge that is much easier internalise if you operate under a simplistic assumption first.
Truth is for maths and logic, the rest is conjecture and models.
Like, water alone has like, five different phases IIRC.
Or was that helium?
you might by confusing "solid phases" for states of matter.
If we draw a phase diagram you'll see shit like ice, ice 2: the cooler ice, ice 9: radical edition or whatever but they're all solid phases. The they just have different structures.
Sort of like lamp black and graphite are both forms of carbon but not really because that's got to do with distinct bonding. A better example, if you know your steels, is martensite vs autensite.
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Ahh yes. Good ol' Michael Reeves. Awesome.
Which one of his videos is this from?
The teacher is a high school student?