Suppose you were given a substance and asked to determine whether or not it was a plasma. Write the characteristics you would look for to identify the substance.

Plasma is basically ionized gas. Therefore, one easy test would be to check the ability of the substance to carry electric current.

A plasma is a high energy state of matter characterized by ionized particles. It has the following characteristics: its particles collide more often, the particles have high kinetic energy, the particles are far apart and the ionized particle have no fixed volume.