How many states of matter are there?

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There are three mainly used states of matter, solid, liquid, and gas. Plasma is considered a forth state because the characteristics are significantly  different from those of gases. It depends if you are including plasma or not, so three or four states of matter.

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There are four states: solid, liquid, gas, and plasma. Astro-physicists usually don't want to bother with plasma and will go to great efforts to avoid having to admit that it exists. For instance they were forced to admit that the northern lights are caused by charged particles passing through gas in low pressure, but they refuse to call that an electric current; they call it a solar wind. Since a current always travels in a circuit, they are unaware of the connection to the torus of charged particles around the equator, which they call a radiation belt.
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How many states of matter are there?

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