TNPSC Thervupettagam

Fifth State of Matter

June 19 , 2020 1495 days 846 0
  • The NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) scientists in the International Space Station unveiled the first results of Bose-Einstein condensate experiments.
  • It is revealed that the particles can be manipulated free from Earthly constraints.
  • Bose-Einstein Condensates (BEC) were predicted by Indian Mathematician Satyendra Nath Bose and Albert Einstein almost a century ago.
  • BEC is a state of matter that is typically formed when a gas of bosons is cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero.
  • There are four state of matter namely solid, liquid, gas and plasma.
  • The BEC is the fifth state of matter and was created by the scientists 25 years ago. 
  • The fourth state of matter called the plasma was described by the chemist Irving Langmuir.

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