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plasma

[plaz-muh] / ˈplæz mə /




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The change is being justified by permitting the use of blood components, like plasma and red blood cells and platelets, in the huge numbers of medical procedures that were previously banned.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

This reduction is consistent with particles losing energy inside quark–gluon plasma and provides further evidence that the exotic material can form in collisions involving lighter nuclei.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

When particles with intermediate momenta emerge from this plasma, they can inherit collective motion from the quarks that make them up.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

The comparison provided unambiguous evidence of parton energy loss in oxygen–oxygen collisions, strengthening the case that even relatively small nuclear collisions can generate conditions associated with quark–gluon plasma.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026

“Can’t be as awesome as a grape plasma ball.”

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas

To avoid creating and managing radioactive waste, TAE wants to use a fuel that requires far hotter plasmas than other fusion companies aim for, posing a bigger physics challenge.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 28, 2026

The National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory creates such plasmas by directing 192 powerful laser beams onto hydrogen-containing targets.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

Yet as researchers push the limits of plasma performance, they have encountered new challenges for keeping plasmas under control, including one that involves bursts of energy escaping from the edge of a super-hot plasma.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024

Knowing how steep a pedestal can be before instabilities occur could help researchers find ways to optimize plasmas for fusion reactions based on the proportions of the tokamak.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2024

One is to use plasmas instead of plates.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife


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