History of Plasma

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The word plasma has a greek root which means to be formed or molded (the word plastic shares this root) and has a few definitions: a green type of quartz (rare - first used in 1772); the fluid part of blood, lymph or milk (first used in 1845); an ionized gas (first used in 1928).

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