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The next time you're having a rotten day and someone asks you what's [Man asks guy whats the matter]

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the matter there's a great response so it'll get them to leave you alone

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instantly well you can say matter is anything that has mass and takes up

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space regardless of how far apart particles as long as something exists

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physically and can be measured it's matter....generally when we answer

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this way the inquiring party will fall silent back away slowly and sometimes [Man backs away from guy and calls somebody]

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call someone at a local mental health facility I've been there when we're

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dealing with matter in the scientific sense, there are four kinds or states of

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matter that you'll need to know we'll start with gas, so that we can get all

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the giggles out of the way the particles in a gas are very far apart and are [Particles in gas and children play]

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bouncing around like a class full of kindergartners who just ate too many

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cupcakes which is why when you see a gas rise or move through the air it moves in [Gas particles moving through the air]

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strange and unpredictable ways and while we're on the subject air itself is a gas

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yep, that lovely oxygen you use to fill up your lungs on a daily basis while that

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stuff's the definitely gaseous which is a relief because if we had to breathe in a

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solid in order to survive when we'd be insanely congested when the particles [Man breathing in rocks]

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are much closer together, still free to move around but somewhat constricted

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like an elevator that's nearly filled the max capacity you've got yourself a

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liquid and when the particles are super close together to the point where

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they're barely moving at all like the stuff on the top shelf of your fridge

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then you've got a solid while we're thinking about it this might be a good [Fridge opens]

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time to start checking expiration date when clean the whole house and yeah we're

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pretty sure milks seen better days but there's a fourth state of matter and

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believe it or not it accounts for over 99% of the visible universe plasma [Plasma in universe]

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consists of free moving electrons and ions and can be found in everything from

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neon lights to lighting to yep you guessed it plasma TVs but gaze up into

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the night sky and you'll be looking at a whole lot of plasma even if it is a bit [A couple staring into the night sky]

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out of reach all that star stuff is made largely of plasma or ionized gas and

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those are your four states of matter watch out for those guys in the white [Man in a park chased by men in white suits]

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suits with a big net you want to avoid them if possible

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