Eli5: What are the other states of matter aside from solid, liquid and gas and why are they not being taught in schools?
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To answer the second part of your question as folks answered the first part.
It would be unnecessary. One could go through their entire life without having found a useful purpose for the knowledge surrounding the many states of matter beyond the main 4(because plasma is more common than you may think). We simply don’t encounter them frequently enough for them to be pertinent to education outside the few fields where they actually play a significant enough role.
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