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plasma


(PLAZ-muh) A state of matter in which some or all of the electrons have been torn from their parent atoms. The negatively charged electrons and positively charged ions move independently.	1
‡ Plasmas are usually associated with very high temperatures—most of the sun is a plasma, for example.	2

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