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Also a majority, more than 99 percent, of the visible matter in the universe is in the plasma state! This might be difficult to believe since at the surface of the Earth we usually do not encounter the matter in the plasma state. But the universe is filled with plasma. For example, the Sun and the other...

Hi Jimmy, You may have talked about 3 states of matter in school: solid, liquid, and gas. The type of plasma that is a gas of electrons and ions (not the blood plasma!) can be considered a 4th state of matter. The reason is that even though plasmas are like gases in many ways, plasmas also have unique...