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Subject: What is plasma?

Gamertag: Sarge 117

A good example of Plasma is a space ship during re-entry. The ship is coming into the atmosphere SO FAST that particles are totally unable to get out of the way, and are torn apart.

  • 05.03.2004 8:01 PM PDT
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  • 05.04.2004 4:43 AM PDT
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To clarify for everybody.
Plasma is a gas that is heated to around 10 Milion degrees.
Then when it looses its electrone it becomes what we know as plasma, or ionized gas.

Here is a link that may help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma

  • 05.04.2004 5:11 AM PDT
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Awesome link Uzza! That should clear thing's up. Some of the post's were almost correct but didn't include the things that high school chemistry didn't teach us. IE, the explanation of the time's of particle collision's within the plasma itself to make the superheated effect.

  • 05.04.2004 8:07 AM PDT
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Yeah so you can say it is a super-heated gas and a ionized gas.

  • 05.04.2004 8:12 AM PDT

bah

Considering that none pf the poll choices are technically correct, what do you hope to accomplish?

  • 05.04.2004 8:24 AM PDT
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I think (not sure) but when an atom loses or gains an electron it is then an ionized atom, either negative or positively charged. Also because it may be (again, not sure) skipping the melting phase and going straight to the gas from a solid sublimation, (I think that's how you spell the action of sublime) it has to be heated in extreme circumstances. That's were the "superheated" comes from. So, in all actuallity it is a Super-heated Ionized Gas.

[Edited on 5/4/2004 8:26:26 AM]

  • 05.04.2004 8:25 AM PDT

bah

Plasma does not have to be hot at all. Hot conditions merely make it easier for plasma to exist. Heat is not a requirement.

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Posted by: Notorious M
Also because it may be (again, not sure) skipping the melting phase and going straight to the gas from a solid sublimation, (I think that's how you spell the action of sublime) it has to be heated in extreme circumstances.


Actually that is not true. To be called a plasma a gas must be super-heated.

How can it be a plasma if it is not super heated?

[Edited on 5/4/2004 8:37:58 AM]

  • 05.04.2004 8:36 AM PDT

bah

Straight from Merriam-Websterplasma: a collection of charged particles (as in the atmospheres of stars or in a metal) containing about equal numbers of positive ions and electrons and exhibiting some properties of a gas but differing from a gas in being a good conductor of electricity and in being affected by a magnetic fieldNowhere does it say anything about heat. Nowhere does it say plasma is any form of gas. That's like saying water is a form of gas, it just isn't. It is an entirly different state of matter. Saying plasma is "superheated gas" is 100% wrong. Superheated gas can turn into plasma, much as the way superheated water turns into steam. Is steam merely a superheated liguid? No, it's a gas.
It has many of the properties of a gas, but gasses have many of the same properties of liquids, and liquids have many properties similar to solids. Plasma is unlike a gas more than a gas is unlike a liquid.

[Edited on 5/4/2004 8:44:38 AM]

  • 05.04.2004 8:42 AM PDT
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Well I guess I was wrong then. I guess I didn't reat through the wikipedia enough.

Plasma is the fourth state of matter. It is distinct from the three lower-energy phases of matter solid, liquid, and gas. Plasmas are the most common form of matter, comprising more than 99% of the visible universe. Commonly encountered forms of plasma include the Sun and other stars (which are plasmas heated by nuclear fusion), lit fluorescent lamps, lightning, the Aurora borealis, the solar wind, and interstellar nebulae. A plasma is also generated in front of a spacecraft's heat shield on reentering the atmosphere.

  • 05.04.2004 8:51 AM PDT
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That's like saying water is a form of gas, it just isn't. It is an entirly different state of matter. This is true but, if you have ever been in a physics class, you will learn that both gases and liquids are fluid. IE, hydraulic and pnuematic systems can theoretically be interchanged without any faults.

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Posted by: Notorious M
Awesome link Uzza! That should clear thing's up. Some of the post's were almost correct but didn't include the things that high school chemistry didn't teach us. IE, the explanation of the time's of particle collision's within the plasma itself to make the superheated effect.


I cleared the plasma thing up a day ago, my friend. I edited my post because you're NOT supposed to give out the answer- let the people decide for their selves.

  • 05.04.2004 8:58 AM PDT
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I cleared the plasma thing up a day ago, my friend. I edited my post because you're NOT supposed to give out the answer- let the people decide for their selves. I didn't and can't tell people what to beleive, I was merely voicing my opinion like everyone else was. Also, I was not the one that posted the link, revealing what plasma really is. Just pointing this out. *I will stop becuase I don't want this to become a flamefest and I am a hothead* GOOSFRABA, GOOSFRABA

[Edited on 5/4/2004 9:10:16 AM]

  • 05.04.2004 9:06 AM PDT
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Yeah but it became pretty much ruined on the first page.
And besides, don't you think people vote on polls before reading the messages.

  • 05.04.2004 9:14 AM PDT
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Actually I think that plasma is grunts orbitting around a flaming ninja at the speed of light. lol

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  • 05.04.2004 9:18 AM PDT
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Lol that would be a Halo description of an atom.

  • 05.04.2004 9:21 AM PDT

Posted by: Uzza
Yeah but it became pretty much ruined on the first page.
And besides, don't you think people vote on polls before reading the messages.


You have a point. ;-)

  • 05.04.2004 9:29 AM PDT
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stuff that comes from white blood cells

  • 05.04.2004 9:43 AM PDT

bah

Posted by: Notorious M
IE, hydraulic and pnuematic systems can theoretically be interchanged without any faults.
Whoa! Don't go so far with that! One of the key differences between gasses and liquids is that gasses are compressable, whereas liquids are not. It is true that they can often be interchanged though.

  • 05.04.2004 10:45 AM PDT
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Heres the perfect definition- [i]noun[i]: Shiny blue sparky stuff that hurts when you touch it...

Heres a good question:
why do grunts where orange, are they boy, girl, half-and-half?
how come the covenant know English?
why do fools fall in love?
why does the world go round?
why doesn't everyone in the world strip NAKED so that PEOPLE will stop FIGHTING and we can all GET ALONG?


i think you get my point...

and that is that naked is peaceful

  • 05.04.2004 4:00 PM PDT
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And how does the later part have anything to do with the topic?

  • 05.04.2004 4:05 PM PDT

Plasma is either a component of blood or the fourth stage of matter.

  • 05.04.2004 4:06 PM PDT
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As many have said

Plasma is not a super heated gas. That is but one form of plasma. There are plasmas that you can safely put your hand through and it's reported to be rather.... ticklish.

More accurately, as has been said, Plasma is the forth state and it has not yet been fully explored by science. What is known of it is that it is often created by hyper-energizing matter, not necessarily by heat alone, electricity has been used to effect the same state.

Plasmas, mysteriously, are influenced by magnetic lines of force and have different properties based on its frequency. At lower frequencies it even becomes "stiff" acting much like a solid and work is being done by various agencies to try and make a workable "force field" out of it.

To say what that you know what plasma is... is to say that you know what today's leading scientists do not. More and more is being discovered about Plasma every day.

  • 05.04.2004 5:17 PM PDT
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Plasma is a state of matter that only hapens when an element is super-heated to the point where all ions are striped off the nucleus and the element becomes like a solid-gas somehow

  • 05.04.2004 5:48 PM PDT

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