and to turn from a gas to a liquid is called condensation and back is called evaporation, and freeze is liqiuid to solid and melt is solid to liquid, and sublimation is solid to a gas. Then what are the missing transformation? I.e. Solid/Gas/Liquid to Plasma and back and Gas to Solid?
2007-08-23 06:00:47 · 5 answers · asked by indie9999 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
Gas --> Solid = Deposition
Gas --> Plasma = Ionization
Plasma --> Gas = Deionization
I think thats all. You cant turn a liquid or a solid directly to Plasma
2007-08-23 06:06:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
In most cases, matter on Earth has electrons that orbit around the atom's nucleus. The negatively charged electrons are attracted to the positively charged nucleus. Remember, opposites attract! So the electrons stay in orbit around the nucleus. When temperatures get REALLY hot, the electrons can escape out of their orbit around the atom's nucleus. When the electron(s) leave, that leaves behind what scientists call a positively charged ion. This whole process is similar to a spacecraft that escapes the Earth's gravitational pull. In summary, when electrons are no longer trapped in orbits around the nucleus, we have the plasma state. This is when a gas becomes a bunch of electrons which have escaped the pull of the nucleus and ions which are positively charged because they have lost one or more electrons. Most of the matter in the universe is found in the plasma state. That is because stars contain so much of the matter in the universe (stars are so hot that their matter can only exist in the plasma state). and let me tell you,gel is not a state of matter.Its a colloidal sol of solid and liquid.
2016-05-21 00:15:38 · answer #2 · answered by lana 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plasma is an ionised gas, i.e. a gas which has been raised to an energy level which is high enough to allow free electrons to exist within it. These free electrons conduct electricity in a way that gases are unable to do.
You cannot go directly from a solid or a liquid to a plasma, it has to be gaseous first and if you are looking for a suitable term to describe the process of forming the gas into plasma it will have to be ionisation and presumably the reverse process of forming plasma into gas de-ionisation.
2007-08-23 10:26:39 · answer #3 · answered by tomsp10 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plasma is just an ionized gas, which means it has been stripped of one or more electrons.
There are also other states of matter than those four.
2007-08-23 06:13:18 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
sublimation?
2007-08-23 06:10:21 · answer #5 · answered by burb 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋