I’m still not super-clear on how a plasma is different to a gas.
Like in school they do the “ice, water, steam” demo for solid, liquid and gas, but you can’t have a H2O plasma, right?
Like, first the molecules would have to split up, then the atoms start dropping their electrons, so it seems more like a chemical change than a change of state like melting or boiling.
If we say that a plasma isn’t a gas because it reacts to magnetic fields, isn’t that like saying a lump of steel and a lump of coal aren’t both solids?
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