plasma
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The previous year, LHC researchers had also reported the first hints of this plasma emerging from oxygen–oxygen collisions.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
One of the clearest ways to identify quark–gluon plasma is to examine what happens when energetic quarks and gluons travel through it.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2026
Rather than focusing primarily on the energy of particle jets, they examined how the plasma appears to reduce the production of certain energetic particles.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 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
It continued past long storage racks that held a wide array of weaponry: magic swords, shields, powered armor suits, plasma rifles, railguns, and countless other weapons.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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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
This finding challenges decades of assumptions about how tokamak plasmas behave at high density.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 4, 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
Even though natural plasmas are rare on Earth—other than lightning or the northern lights—man-made plasmas are everywhere.
From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas
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