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What Is All About Matter?

The document discusses the definition and nature of matter. Matter is defined as any substance that has mass and occupies space, and is composed of atoms which are made up of interacting subatomic particles. Matter can exist in different states such as solid, liquid, and gas. Throughout history, scientists have pondered the exact nature of matter and many proposed that matter was constructed of fundamental building blocks or particles.

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What Is All About Matter?

The document discusses the definition and nature of matter. Matter is defined as any substance that has mass and occupies space, and is composed of atoms which are made up of interacting subatomic particles. Matter can exist in different states such as solid, liquid, and gas. Throughout history, scientists have pondered the exact nature of matter and many proposed that matter was constructed of fundamental building blocks or particles.

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What is matter?

In classical physics and general chemistry, matter is any substance that has mass and occupies space

with its volume.[1] All the everyday objects we touch are ultimately made up of atoms, which are made

up of interacting subatomic particles, and in everyday and scientific use, matter usually includes atoms

and everything that is composed of them and all particles (or combinations of particles). ), which act as if

they had both rest mass and volume. However, it does not contain massless particles such as photons or

other energy phenomena, or waves such as light or heat.[1]: 21 [2] Matter exists in different states (also

known as phases). These include the classical everyday phases such as solid, liquid, and gas—for

example, water exists as ice, liquid water, and gas vapor—but other phases are possible, including

plasma, Bose–Einstein condensates, fermionic condensates, and quarks. . gluon plasma. [3] Hydrogen

in the plasma state is the most common ordinary substance in the universe. In general, atoms can be

thought of as a nucleus of protons and neutrons and a "cloud" of protons and neutrons surrounding

them. of orbital electrons that "take a subscriber" [4][5] However, this is only partially true, because

subatomic particles and their properties are governed by their quantum nature, which means that they

do not act in the way that everyday objects appear. . act - they can be either waves or particles and

have no well-defined sizes or locations. In the Standard Model of particle physics, matter is not a

fundamental concept because the elementary parts of atoms are quantum entities that have no

inherent "size" and "size". or "volume" in the everyday sense of the word. Due to the principle of

exclusion and other fundamental interactions, some "point particle sets andquot; fermions (quarks,

leptons) and many compounds and atoms are effectively forced to maintain their distance from other

particles in everyday conditions; it creates a property of matter that tells us that matter occupies space.

During most of the history of the natural sciences, people have pondered the exact nature of matter.

The idea that matter was constructed from separate building blocks, the so-called particle theory,

originated in both ancient Greece and ancient India.[6] Among the earliest philosophers who proposed
the particle theory of matter are the ancient Indian philosopher Kanada (c. 6th century BC or later), [7]

the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Leucippus (~490 AD), and the pre-Socratic Greek philosopher.

Democritus. ~470–380 BC).[8]

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