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States of Matter

Today the 4th grade students learned about the 5 states of matter.  Yes, you read correctly, there are 5 states of matter: Bose-Einstein condensate, solid, liquid, gas and plasma.  In 2001, three scientists won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their actual discovery of the Bose-Einstein condensate.  S.N. Bose and Einstein had theorized about the possibility of this low energy state in the early 1920s.  

http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2001/popular.html#

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