Question

What are the different states of matter?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

think about water to find the first 3. this represents any other material. only the temperatures of changing the state is different.

and then about rocket engines or welding for the 4th.

water can be liquid. normal water as coming out of the faucet.

water can be solid (as in frozen) - ice.

water can be a gas : steam (visible), when we boil it, or invisible vapor, when it is standing still and simply evaporating.

and the mentioned very high temperature state : plasma is the 4th.

in this state at least the molecules split into the atoms, and the electrons separate from the atom cores. and sometimes even the atom cores can split into the elementary parts.

FYI

measurements of the inner parts of planets like Jupiter hint towards a 5th state : hydrogen at the core of Jupiter in a liquid/metallic (and therefore also solid) state.

then there is the matter state in a neutron star (squeezed together so that everything is reduced to neutrons).

and last but not least there is matter in a black hole, where we have only some very strange theories (like elastic thin pipes that weave together).

Answer 2

Answer: The three main states of matter are: solid, liquid and gas.

Examples:

An everyday example of a solid would be: ice cubes, the particles in this block of ice are very close and rigid; lacking movement.

An example of a liquid would be water (the melted form of an ice cube): the particles in water display some attraction, but not nearly as much as a solid.

An example of a gas would be the gas the comes out of a tea-kettle: the particles in this gaseous state show very little attraction and are constantly changing.

As per the Law of Conservation of Mass: Matter cannot be created nor destroyed, though it can be reformed depending on conditions.