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plasma

[plaz-muh] / ˈplæz mə /




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However, they point out that she has no plasma or rare-disease experience, and that CSL’s core businesses have a wide therapeutic and commercial scope.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

Vampire facials involve drawing a patient's blood and then separating out platelet-rich plasma from it using a centrifuge.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

Existing scorpion antivenoms are produced by injecting horses with venom and harvesting their plasma antibodies, making them expensive to produce, variable and effective only against specific species.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Unlike water, blood is a complex mixture containing plasma, red blood cells, platelets, and other components.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

Or like the grape plasma balls in the microwave.

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

Machine learning has already shown considerable potential for controlling fusion plasmas.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026

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

"That's a necessary requirement for anything you want to accomplish later on, such as burning plasmas or achieving ignition."

From Science Daily ● Feb. 5, 2024

One is to use plasmas instead of plates.

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


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