Debbie Wasserman Schultz to Resign D.N.C. Post. Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, at a rally for Hillary Clinton and her running mate, Senator Tim Kaine, in Miami on Saturday. Credit Scott McIntyre for The New York Times. Follow along with our coverage of the Democratic National Covention.
States of Matter: Facts. Matter is all around us. Matter is the air you are breathing. Matter is the computer you are reading from now. Matter is the stuff you touch and see. And it is more. Matter is defined as anything that has mass and takes up space.
Matter and elements. The term matter refers to anything that occupies space and has massâin other words, the âstuffâ that the universe is made of. All matter is made up of substances called elements, which have specific chemical and physical properties and cannot be broken down into other substances through ordinary chemical reactions. Gold, for instance, is an element, and so is carbon. There are 118 elements, but only 92 occur naturally.