What state of matter do particles move most rapidly in?

Question

In what state of matter (solid, liquid, or gas) do particles move most rapidly?

Answer 1

gas

Answer 2

The quick and simplist answer is "Gas, because it it is the phase of matter alone that exists at the Highest Temperatures or the most kinetic (speediest) molecular energies, Plasma. Speed energy of matter particles increase when Temperature goes up. No matter can be as fast as the speed of light, but light is not really matter, but energy particles (or waves). So, when people talk about particles of matter, they usually mean protons, neutrons and electrons. The sun is gas highly compressed, so dense that at the very densest and hottest center, at 25 million degrees C. or so, the Hydrogen gas may actually be a solid. So, Depending on the temperature and pressure of matter, these phases come into existance. This question involves the eutectics of phase shifts when the variable properties of both temperature and pressure of matter are plotted on a graph.

Answer 3

Gas. If they're solid there is only room for the particles to vibrate because they are so closely packed together (to make it a solid!). If they're liquid they can only move within the confines of what they are being contained in (even water in the ocean is contained). Gas particles have the ability and freedom to move in any direction anywhere they want. Even when confined (like in a container) they still have more movement than in other states.

Answer 4

Want to sound smart?
You don't go over this until high level courses, but technically there are four states of matter, solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Fire is the most common substance of plasma. It also has the fastest-moving particles.

Answer 5

Actually it is a fourth state of matter called "plasma" which can only be created in extremely hot and rare situations.They are typically formed by heating and ionizing a gas (stripping electrons away from atoms) thereby enabling the positive and negative charges to move freely.

Answer 6

Particles of Gas move most rapidly, because they have very little or almost no molecular attraction to each other.
You can notice when some gas container for example a perfume bottle is opened its spreads very fast in the room.
This is because gas has no definate volume or shape so it takes both volume and shape of the container into which it is placed. As perfume takes the shape and volume of room by spreading everywhere.

Answer 7

Gas

Answer 8

Gas; move most rapidly; weakest intermolecular forces.

Answer 9

Plasma.

If infinite heat can be applied, will there be infinite levels of yet to be discovered states of matter?

Years back, no-one thought of plasma.

Answer 10

Gases. This is because they are bound by very weak forces, hence molecules can move most rapidly.