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What is a state of matter?

What is a state of matter? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (physics) Any of the different phases of matter whose properties are dependent on the motions and forces of the molecules of which they are composed
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It is hoped that one of these collisions will eventually create a new state of matter known as quark-gluon plasma.
Teachers should help students to develop a conceptual understanding of what the particles would be like in each state of matter.
This is the amount of heat energy necessary to change the phase or state of matter from liquid to gas.
The state of matter may affect the way in which the molecule takes part in a chemical reaction.
Liquid crystals, David Dunmur and Tim Sluckin explain, are a fourth state of matter.
In this new state of matter, all the atoms are in the same coherent quantum state.

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