I learned that everything is a solid, liquid, or gas. So what is electricity?

Not matter.

@Narl Welcome to fluther. Lurve.
Electricity is Energy. So is light.

Electricity is a process, not a thing. Simply put, it is the movement of electrons within the solids, liquids, or gases. It’s similar with fire. We think of it as a thing, but in fact it is a chemical reaction.

You could try explaining it like “traffic”. Traffic is the movement, not the cars themselves.

It’s positively shocking. Yeah, what @Jack79 said above.

@Jack79 – Good call… you summed that up in what would’ve taken me a couple paragraphs to describe.

what jacky said. also, additionally to solid, liquid and gaseous, there is also plasma.

@ragingloli don’t forget about the Bose-Einstein condensate!

@FrogOnFire
oh yes, how could i forget.

or all the other states

A solid. Or rather, a collection of solid particles that react when placed together.

Electrical energy can be converted to mass, but you’d need a big boom.

A reaction caused by the actions of gases and liquids.

Conductors can be solid (e.g. wires), liquid solution (e.g. saltwater), gas, plasma, or other forms of matter. Electricity is a phenomenon that occurs when charged particles within one of these conducting materials move through it under the influence of an electric field. The identity of these particles varies according to the material; in a metal they are free electrons, in solutions they are atoms or molecules with an excess or deficit of electrons, etc. So the active participants in electricity are mobile charged particles within a material (ignoring special situations like superconductors), while electricity itself is a phenomenon describing the movement of these charges so as to do work via the production of heat by resistance, the creation of magnetic fields, etc.

Not everything is solid, liquid, or gas, just matter. And even then, there are states of matter beyond that as well.

Electricity, not being matter, wouldn’t belong to one of those states.

@standardtoaster Welcome to fluther. Lurve.
Energy behaves like matter in some ways, but not in others, so no one is sure if it is or not.

Jayne wins, but I’ll state it slightly differently.

“Electricity” itself isn’t really matter; it’s a phenomenon produced by the movement of matter, and thus it can’t really have a state.

@filmfann not quite, i believe you’re mistaking energy with photons of light, which have properties of both energy and matter

first: not every thing is solid,liquid or gas.In the universe exists a 4th state plasma which is most common.

Electricity is a kind of interaction between particles with spin 0.5(particles that form matter).The interaction of particles is basic a change of particles with spin 1,2,3,⅔,3/2 etc.(this particles are ’‘virtual’’ ,they can be observed only in special cases).This is the scientific explication given by Stephan Hawking,but to your 7 years old daughter you can say that electricity a way for particles to communicate.

@Christian95; I may be wrong, but I think you are confusing electric force, and the corresponding electric field, with electricity, the movement of charges that results from those things.

When you discuss the forms of matter, gas, liquid or solid, you are above the molecular state already. These are more complex collections. Electricity is dealing with atoms/electrons etc. You need these to build up to the states of matter. Also as stated before… there are 4 states….can’t forget plasma!! Let’s all keep our eyes opened for the “what is plasma question ” coming in the near future.

energy that is produce from other matter kind of like fire energy created from burning things….my idea.