Question

you can see water in its three states in nature. Name some other substances that you can see in the three states in every life.​

Answer 1

Yeah, all of them! And they are not only available in three, but actually four states!

Every substance in the universe has a freezing and a boiling point. For water, the freezing point is 0 degrees Celsius, and the boiling point is at 100 degrees Celsius.

Ever heard of liquid nitrogen?



Liquid nitrogen is a pretty fun substance, you can use it to freeze solid a lot of things and honestly it’s pretty satisfying to see things that normally don’t just shatter do so!

Nitrogen comprises roughly 80% of our atmosphere. It is a gas in the temperatures we are used to. But if you drop the temperature down below -196 degrees Celsius, this gas will condense into a liquid! Drop the temperature even more, below -210 degrees, and Nitrogen will freeze and become a solid.

This is true for all materials. Every substance will become a solid provided the temperature is low enough, will turn into a liquid once the temperature rises enough and then the liquid will turn into a gas if you heat it even more. The reason you don’t see for example Iron as a gas is that Iron has a boiling point of a ridiculous 2,862 degrees Celsius! A temperature you don’t see often! Liquid iron is also an extreme, but it’s pretty common to work with it. Smiths use liquid iron to create tools.



So there you have it! All materials can exist in these three states. But there is also one more state which is not as widely known, the fourth state - plasma. Plasma is not really known to the public, even though we see it every day. In fact, it literally makes our day. Want to see what plasma looks like? Look up.



The sun’s matter is in this state. This state occurs at ridiculously high temperatures. While in gas molecules move freely and quickly, in plasma the temperature is so high that the electrons also begin to roam freely, free from their atoms.

You can also see plasma during thunderstorms. Lightning bolts are long and thin streaks of plasma. Just like’s the case with other more widely known states, any material can assume the state of plasma, provided it gets hot enough! When you want to say that something turns into plasma, you say “it ionized”, the same way you say “it boiled”.

Edit: I should probably have mentioned in my answer that these states are very general in their nature, and in reality we have more complex models. Out of these models also come some states of matter too extreme and rare such as quark-gluon plasma, Einstein-Bose condensate and such. Thanks to Harry Zheng for reminding me to get a little more scientific!