plasma
noun
the liquid part of blood or lymph, as distinguished from the suspended elements.
plasmas
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pluralof plasma.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
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
Yet as researchers push the limits of plasma performance, they have encountered new challenges for keeping plasmas under control, including one that involves bursts of energy escaping from the edge of a super-hot plasma.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 5, 2024
"Scientific ideas move like space plasmas," says David Malaspina, a space plasma physicist at University of Colorado, Boulder.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 16, 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
