• Question: What is the state of matter of a particle?

    Asked by anon-224981 to Paul, Nawapat, Natalie, Katy on 21 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Paul Laurance-Young

      Paul Laurance-Young answered on 21 Nov 2019:

      Good question… not a clue! I need a particle physicist for this!

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      Nawapat Kaweeyanun answered on 21 Nov 2019:

      A particle itself doesn’t have a state. A state describes how particles interact with each other. A solid has particles tightly bound to each other, while a gas has particles moving freely and clashing with each other.

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