According to scientists, the amount of energy contained in a glass of pure plasma is equivalent to 98 quadrillion liters or 9800 trillion liters of gasoline.
Not the liquid, gaseous, or solid states, matter has a fourth state, known as plasma. Plasma has more energy than the other three states of matter.
According to scientists, the amount of energy contained in a glass of pure plasma is equivalent to 98 quadrillion liters or 9800 trillion liters of gasoline. However, making this amount of pure plasma is an extremely difficult and complex process.
Researchers claim that the entire solar system can be orbited once by using the energy of a glass of plasma.
Even the amount of plasma that can be filled in a glass can be used to burn 143 quintillion watt bulbs for a year.
How to create the fourth state of matter? When a substance is heated to a high temperature, electrons are separated from atoms.
The fourth state of matter is that which remains in the heated gaseous atoms after the separation of electrons.
Plasma is known to exist within 600,000 km of the Sun. Plasma is easily produced because the temperature is 150 million degrees Celsius.
Atoms in the sun collide with each other to form nuclear fusion. In this process, plasma is produced.
The aurora, or glow, that can be seen when looking at the sky at night at the North and South Poles, is actually the plasma state of matter.
Whether it’s the flash of light during a lightning flash or the stars in the night sky – all matter is actually plasma, the fourth state of matter.
Plasmas are produced artificially by heating ordinary gases to high temperatures in a strong electromagnetic field.
The use of artificial plasmas is widespread in modern times. Artificial plasma is used to make plasma displays on television screens.
Artificial plasmas are used to make fluorescent lamps, ion engines, and laser-produced plasmas (LPPs).
Plasmas are present in the ionosphere of the Earth. There is also plasma in the magnetosphere.
Artificial plasma is also used in research and technology. Plasma is used in aerospace engineering.
Artificial plasmas are also used for cutting solid metal sheets, spraying plasmas to create new coatings, and in microelectronics.
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