Explain plasma and Bose –Einstein condensate with respect to matter. How are they formed? Where are they found to be occurring?
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Plasma The fourth state of matter is plasma. Plasma is an ionized gas, a gas into which sufficient energy is provided to free electrons from atoms or molecules and to allow both species, ions and electrons, to coexist. In effect a plasma is a cloud of protons, neutrons and electrons where all the electrons have come loose from their respective molecules and atoms, giving the plasma the ability to act as a whole rather than as a bunch of atoms.
Bose-eInsteIn condensate (BEC) In 1995, two scientists, Cornell and Weiman, finally created this new state of matter. Two other scientists, Satyendra Bose and Albert Einstein, had predicted it in the 1920. They didn't have the equipment and facilities to make it happen in the 20s. If plasmas are super hot and super excited atoms, the atoms in a BoseEinstein condensate (BEC) are total opposites. They are super-unexcited and super-cold atoms
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