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.

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Chemistry

Yoselin Boyd

14 November, 16:33

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.

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Jovany · Answer 1

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

Jaslene Burke · Answer 2

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.