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   Plas·ma

   /ˈplazmə/

   

   noun

   • 1. the colorless fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk, in which corpuscles or fat globules are suspended.
   • 2. an ionized gas consisting of positive ions and free electrons in proportions resulting in more or less no overall electric charge, typically at low pressures (as in the upper atmosphere and in fluorescent lamps) or at very high temperatures (as in stars and nuclear fusion reactors): "the current passed through a column of plasma"
   • ▪ an analogous substance consisting of mobile charged particles (such as a molten salt or the electrons within a metal).
   • 3. a dark green, translucent variety of quartz used in mosaic and for other decorative purposes.
   • 4. another term for cytoplasm or protoplasm

   Word Origin mid 16th century (in the sense ‘pot, vessel’): from Latin, ‘modulation of the voice, creature, poetic fiction’, from Greek plasma ‘anything formed or molded, image, figure’, from plassein ‘to form or mold’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. plasmatic adjective
   • 2. plasmic adjective

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