Importance of the Subject

Serena Cuoghi
Title of Professor of Biology

Matter plays a determining role both in the verifiable facts, through their direct analysis, and through the hypotheses that could be generated through the study of its own nature, coming into play factors such as the specific state in which it is found and its variations depending on the changes in the environment to which it may be subjected, while science has been able to evolve vertiginously after understanding that 1) matter is directly and proportionally linked to energy; 2) everything that exists in the Universe has matter; 3) the states of matter may or may not obey Newtonian physics, thereby generating new fields of physics with laws that transcend beyond the focus of physics and classical mechanics, opening the doors to the application of physics and molecular chemistry and quantum.

In the modern history of chemistry and physics there are a couple of terms that carry more than one century directly interrelated mathematically thanks to the profound analyzes of Albert Einstein. Since then, the growing notions about the concepts of matter and energy are the apex of all scientific research, since they are the basic aspects that allow the quantification of all existing phenomena, and even those that have not yet been directly evidenced, but only predicted by means of mathematical calculations each time more complex.

States of the material

The states of matter are the different forms in which it can appear, being the solid, the liquid and the gaseous the most commonly known for the familiarity we have with them, however, so far other states such as Plasma have been determined, in which the atoms of a gas are highly ionized and the Bose-Einstein Condensate which is generated in the extreme cold close to absolute zero.

Three other states have been scientifically proven, two of them as subcategories of the solid state and called crystalline solid and solid. amorphous, while the supercritical state of matter is still in many cases a theoretical approach with which it is intended to predict the behavior that matter could have, in any of the first 5 states, also known as states of aggregation, while it is subjected to extreme conditions of pressure and/or temperature.

Each state of matter has its own properties and characteristics unique, and the transition from one state to another can be caused by changes in temperature, pressure, or energy. For example, a solid can become a liquid by increasing its temperature, and a liquid can become a gas by reducing its pressure.

For a Better Use

Matter is important in everyday life, since it is the basis of everything that surrounds us and is used in many aspects of society, such as medicine, technology, the feeding, among others. For example, the material is used in the manufacture of medicines, electronic devices, food, cleaning products and all the other elements that we use every day.

In addition, the study and understanding of the matter and its characteristics is also important in the industry, since it allows the manufacture of high quality products through the manipulation of the different properties of the matter used, such as resistance, hardness and flexibility, being that matter is, therefore, a valuable and essential resource for the economic and social development of a society, making this one of the main reasons for the growth of the scientific field dedicated to the exploration of behaviors of matter in which there is still much to discover and be able to take advantage of, particularly in supercritical states from which great advantages are being obtained by being implemented as mechanisms for processing and obtaining resources through more efficient and even less polluting techniques, such as the use that is being made industrially to the supercritical state of liquids and gases for the extraction of substances and resources with a higher degree of purity and reduction of environmental pollution that was generated by through conventional methods.

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