What are the three main states of matter?
Matter's Three Moods
What are the three main states of matter?
Look at a glass of water with ice and steam curling off the top, and you're staring at the same stuff wearing three different costumes. Solid, liquid, gas. That's the whole show — three main states of matter, and the difference between them is just how close together the tiny pieces are, and how wildly they're moving.
Everything around you is made of unimaginably tiny pieces — atoms and the molecules they form. Far too small to see, always jiggling, never quite still. The three states of matter are really just three different moods these tiny pieces can be in. Cold and calm, loose and sloshy, or hot and bouncing off the walls.
