Simple definition and characteristics of plasma and Bose Einstein Condensate?

Question

School just started for me, and I am taking Chemistry this year. Our homework was to find the 4th and 5th states of matter, along with definitions/characteristics for each. The two states are plasma and the Bose Einstein Condensate. However, whenever I open up a website to read about either one, I am bombarded with huge vocabulary and terminology. I was wondering if anyone could simply provide me with an easy definition and some characteristics of these two states of matter. I have already checked my textbook for the answers, but it does not have them.

Sources are appreciated!

Thanks!

Answer 1

i have an assignment for that as well !!

I cant seem to find it anywhere

this is what ive got so far:

 

Bose-Einstein Condensate

In 1924, Albert Einstein and Satyendra Nath Bose (Indian mathematician) predicted the "Bose-Einstein condensate," sometimes referred to as the fifth state of matter.

The Bose-Einstein condensate remained an unproven theoretical prediction for many years. In 1995 the research groups of Eric Allin Cornell (American Physicist) and Carl Wieman (also American Physicist), of JILA at the University of Colorado at Boulder, made the first condensate experimentally. A Bose-Einstein condensate has less heat than a solid

It may occur when atoms have very similar (or the same) quantity, at temperatures very close to absolute zero (–273.15 °C).

Plasma

In physics and chemistry, plasma is a state of matter that is similar to gas where a certain portion of the particles are ionized. The basic assumption is that heating a gas disconnects its molecular bonds, restoring it into its divided atoms. More heating leads to ionization (the loss of electrons), turning it into plasma: containing charged particles, positive ions and negative electrons.

Plasma, like gas, is a state of matter that doesn’t have definite shape or volume.

Unlike gases, plasmas can self-generate magnetic fields and electric currents, and react strongly to electromagnetic forces. The particles that make up plasmas have electric charges, so plasma can conduct electricity. Two examples of plasma are the charged air produced by lightning, and a star like our own sun.

Plasma can be considered as a gas of highly ionized particles, but the powerful interionic forces lead to distinctly different properties, so that it is usually considered as a different phase or state of matter.

 

Plasmas or ionized gases can exist at temperatures starting at several thousand degrees Celsius, where they consist of free charged particles, usually in equal numbers, such as ions and electrons.