plasma

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Together, the rapid spin and this heavy plasma environment appear to pull the magnetic field lines sideways.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

"Enceladus itself is a key driver of this environment, releasing huge amounts of water vapor that gets ionized, loading the magnetosphere with heavy plasma that is then pulled around as the planet spins."

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

The cancerous plasma cells produce large amounts of an abnormal antibody called M protein, which builds up in bone marrow and forms tumors in bones, like the one in my hip.

From Slate • Mar. 29, 2026

TAE creates something like a smoke ring of plasma and aims high-powered neutral particle beams at it to heat and stabilize it, spinning the plasma, like keeping a toy top in motion.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 28, 2026

Not one of the four ancient Ionian and alchemical “elements” is in the modern sense an element at all: one is a molecule, two are mixtures of molecules, and the last is a plasma.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan