States of Matter?

Question

I know this is stupid but i was thinking and could not stop my self from asking : if gases are heated to such an extreme point what would happen ??

will the electrons and other particles be set free and create vacuum?? do gases have a "vacuum point" ?
I am only 15 years old so dont bash me for this stupid question :)

Answer 1

gases like all other states of matter will freeze and melt. Just like water, any gas has a boiling point, and a freezing point. solids do too. It's only more difficult to reace those states with solids and gases because in our atmosphere, our gravity, earths temperature, this matter will tend to stay in that state. If you could look closely at the sun you would see no solids, and it would appear as if it were all liquid. All the solids are melted, and the gases are all condensed as to seem liquid. Well to get to your question, yes gases will do what you ask. It is just too difficult for us to do it to gases. In a particle accelorator we can move gold element fast enough to seperate them into particles smaller than electrons and neutrons. when they collide they break apart, and within a millionth of a second the reform with the surrounding elements. During this process the heat up enormously, hotter than the sun, but its only single atoms so its for only that millionth of a second, but still they created a miniture black hole also, there is the vacuum you asked about.

Answer 2

When gasses are heated to such an extreme point, they become PLASMA. The electrons have so much energy, that they just fly away from the nucleus. Google: 'Plasma physics' for more info.

Just lowering the pressure (to get to a vacuum) at normal temperatures isn't enough to coax the electrons from their positions around the nucleus. If you have a certain amount of gas, and you put it in a container that gets bigger and bigger (while keeping the temperature low) it will lower the pressure of the gas, but it will still be a gas, not a plasma. That container can reach infinite size, and all that will happen is the space between gas atoms (or molecules) will get larger. (The temperature will actually drop, too, under normal circumstances.)

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Answer 3

Nothing. it would just expand. nope. gases don't have vacuum point. a vacuum is a place where no gas is present. you can take out the gas in an environment and make it a vacuum but for gas to "turn" into a vacuum is highly unlikely.

Answer 4

There is a fourth state of matter called plasma. All other states of matter are based on the cohesion of atoms, but there are only three possibilities: Completely attached (solid), attached, but sliding past each other (liquid), and not attached (gas). Plasmas are formed when an electron is able to break free of atoms, causing it to become a positive ion. See the sources for a much more complete description

Answer 5

They become plasma...Quite a few if not all the electrons will be stripped off the atom.

Answer 6

Hey....... u know something......resently a new state of matter is discovered...... for more information check out this web page:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1997/09/970909054942.htm