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matter

Substance that has rest mass and volume

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Also known as material substance · material · stuff · substance

Subclass of: physical substance
, amount of matter
Part of: observable universe

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In physical science, matter is anything that has mass and occupies space by having volume. All everyday objects that can be touched are ultimately composed of atoms, which are made up of interacting subatomic particles. In everyday as well as scientific usage, matter generally includes atoms and anything made up of them, and any particles that act as if they have both rest mass and volume. However it does not include massless particles such as photons, or other energy phenomena or waves such as light or heat. Matter exists in various states. These include classical everyday phases such as solid, liquid, and gas – for example water exists as ice, liquid water, and gaseous steam – but other states are possible, including plasma, Bose–Einstein condensates, fermionic condensates, and quark–gluon plasma.

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Members / parts: quark or lepton
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1.Stated in 2001: A Spacetime Odyssey (Proceedings of the Inaugural Conference of the Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics Michigan, USA, 21 – 25 May 2001)books.google.com/books?id=ONhnbpq00xIC&pg=PA144&dq=that+have+mass+but+apparently+are+neither+matter+nor+antimatter&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUstPQ2obSAhUL5IMKHUyQCFEQ6AEIHjAA#v=snippet&q=%22mesons%20was%20a%20complete%20revision%22%20%22concept%20of%20matter.%22%20%22some%20stuff%20with%20mass%20is%20matter--baryons%20and%20leptons%2C%20some%20is%20antimatter--antibaryons%20and%20antileptons%2C%20and%20then%20there%20is%20some%20other%20stuff%20mesons%2C%20that%22&f=false
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Does not have part: non-material physical substance
elementary boson
Has characteristic: mass
mass density
temperature
state of matter
Different from: Madde criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: madde
Mata criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: mata
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Aine criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: aine
Materia criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: materia
Stof criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: stof
Materie criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: Materie
Matière criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: matière
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Union of: list of values as qualifiers list item: antimatter, common matter
Opposite of: non-material physical substance
Disjoint union of: list of values as qualifiers list item: antimatter, mixed matter
Partially coincident with: Dravya
Studied by: physics

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