state of matter

1. One of the four principal conditions in which matter exists—solid, liquid, gas, and plasma.

2. See also phase phase transition

Example Sentences

When electrons settle into these rigid arrangements, the material undergoes a shift in its state of matter and stops conducting electricity.

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The quark-gluon plasma is a unique state of matter where the basic building blocks of protons and neutrons, quarks and gluons, exist freely rather than being confined inside particles.

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The goal, Quaise CEO Carlos Araque says, is to tap rocks that are so hot that when water contacts them, it becomes a fourth state of matter.

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It relies on heating and pressurising water to such a high degree that it enters a new state of matter: a so-called supercritical state.

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This new state of matter called the Majorana zero mode is made up of quasiparticles, which act as their own particle and antiparticle.

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