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since no one has ever "captured" a star, how do you think scientist know that plasma exists?

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    You can make it on earth, too. Maybe a scientist could "capture" your plasma screen TV ;)

  • 1 decade ago

    flame/fire is a plasma - an atomic one...

    any partially ionized gas is technically a plasma.

    we can also produce "nuclear", or "Quark-Gluon" plasmas - that's what RHIC does.

    see also the table "Common Plasmas" here:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(physics)

    cheers

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    plasma exists on earth, in lightning strikes, and in the lab and in commercial goods right in your nearby store

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