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IPA transcription: [p'læzmə]

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Noun

  • the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended

  • a green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone

  • (physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons

    “particles in space exist in the form of a plasma”