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Old 29-September-2007, 11:47 PM
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Originally Posted by coliver View Post
Plasma holds only electrons in a vacuum right? So if it is acted upon by raising or lowering the temperature then it creates the opposing potential?
Plasma has both positive and negatively charged particles, and will be as neutral over-all as can be. We use highly charged situations to create lower temperature plasmas in the laboratory, but simply heating something doesn't charge it or create new electrons.
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