suffices to call a substance "plasma" depends on the specific phenomenon being considered.

Etymology

As part of his systematic studies, Irving Langmuir introduced the term plasma as a description of ionized gas in 1928:

Lewi Tonks and Harold Mott-Smith, both of whom worked with Langmuir in the 1920s, recall that Langmuir first used the term by analogy with the blood plasma. Mott-Smith recalls, in particular,

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