plasma

plasma

A low-density gas in which the individual atoms are charged, even though the total number of positive and negative charges is equal, maintaining an overall electrical neutrality.

One of the four states of matter. (The other three are solid, liquid and gas.) Consists of a gas of positively charged and negatively charged particles with approximately equal concentrations of both so that the total gas is approximately charge neutral. A plasma can be produced from a gas if enough energy is added to cause the electrically neutral atoms of the gas to split into positively and negatively charged atoms and electrons.

the watery, liquid part of the blood in which the red blood cells, the white blood cells, and platelets are suspended. 


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