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Grains of Sand Reveal Possible Fifth State of Matter

4 points| bootload | 16 years ago |wired.com | reply

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[+] ygd_coder|16 years ago|reply
Technically this would be the 6th state of matter. The 5 others being:

Liquid

Gas

Solid

Plasma

Bose-Einstein Condensate (this one is really overlooked)

[+] pmichaud|16 years ago|reply
Linkbait. This guy is noticing admittedly interesting characteristics of "grain dynamics," but it's not a new state of matter at all.