noun
- The colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended.
- synonyms: plasm, blood plasma
- A green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone.
- Physical chemistry. ( a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons)
- usage: "particles in space exist in the form of a plasma"
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