There are five states of matter: solid, liquid, gas, plasma, and Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). Plasma is common among stars but not on Earth, while BEC only forms at extremely low temperatures near absolute zero when atoms lose kinetic energy and clump together. Gases are characterized by diffusion, the movement from high to low concentration, and effusion, movement through a small pore. Several gas laws describe gas behavior, including Boyle's law relating pressure and volume, Charles' law relating volume and temperature, Avogadro's law of equal volumes containing equal molecules, and Dalton's law of partial pressures. Real gases deviate from the ideal gas model due to intermolecular forces