1. Matter Matters
By Aiden Hall

2. What is Matter?
Matter is the basic building block of everything in the universe and ranges from atoms to molecules.
You’re probably familiar with the 3 main states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas, but actually there are 5 states of matter including plasma and Bose-Einstein Condensates.

3. State
State of matter is whether it is a solid, liquid, or gas, the state can change through heat or lack there of. The process goes as follows: when a solid reaches melting point from heat it turns into liquid, when a liquid reaches the right heat it evaporates into a gas, this is called boiling point.
Some materials under the right circumstances jump straight from gas to solid and vice versa, solid to gas is called sublimation, gas to solid is called deposition.

4. Solid
Solids are defined by all the molecules holding shape and having a definite volume.
Solid molecules are actually constantly vibrating on spot.

5. LIQUIDDDDDDDD!!!
Liquid molecules are looser, can slip and slide past each other, and take the shape of their container but they still have fixed volume.
Matter transforms because heat makes the bonds between the molecules loosen up.

6. Gas
Gas is mostly free flowing with the volume and shape of it’s container.

7. Kinetic Molecular Theory
Kinetic molecular theory is the statement of four laws about matter: 1. All matter is made up of tiny particles, 2. There is empty space between them, 3. The particles are always moving: solids vibrate in place, liquids are further apart and slide past each other, and gas is even further apart and moves freely, and 4. The more energy a particle has the faster and farther it moves.

8. Plasma?
Plasma is the state of matter most commonly found in stars, to achieve this state of matter gas must be heated and have energy applied to it until it loses electrons from it’s atoms.
This is indicated by its particles having positive and negative charges.

9. Bose-Einstein Condensate
The fifth and most obscure of all states of matter is Bose-Einstein Condensate which occurs when gas Bosons are cooled very close to absolute zero (0 degrees kelvin)