Re: Plasma

[Larry Woolf <larry.woolf@GAT.COM>]

From:
<http://public.lanl.gov/alp/plasma/people/history.html>

"Langmuir was the first to coin the term plasma (in 1923), borrowing the
term from medical science, to describe the lifelike state he observed in the
laboratory."

and from:
<http://public.lanl.gov/alp/plasma/CIV.html>

"That such currents existed on a much larger scale outside the solar system
and beyond the reach of spacecraft has been a topic of conjecture among
astronomers and space plasma scientists. According to Igor Alexeff,
President of the Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society, "It's not unusual that
neutral hydrogen in space should show such well organized current
structures; plasma also acts in a lifelike and intelligent way in laboratory
experiments and in naturally occurring plasmas such as lightning."

Larry Woolf
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:  Ludwik Kowalski
> Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 10:02 PM
> Subject: Plasma
>
> 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)?