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Re: Plasma

beats me - you know it has the same root as plastic, plaster, etc. (Gr.
to form, mold )?

Wikipedia to the rescue, well, not quite

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


bc

Ludwik Kowalski wrote:

The word "plasma" is used to describe the
liquid part of blood. And in physics the same
word is used to describe a mixture of positive
and negative ions (usually electrons and positive
ions). What do biological and physical plasmas
have in common (to justify the same word)?
Ludwik Kowalski