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All of us have read about solid, liquid and gaseous states of matter in school. Are these the only states of matter? What distinguishes different states of matter from each other?
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D Dhar is a theoretical physicist at the Tata Institute of Funamental Research, Mumbai. His research interests are mainly in the area of nonequilibrium statistical physics.