coliver ,
I am not trying to be rude, but I have to be blunt here. It becomes more obvious with every post that you really need to study some basic physics. For instance, plasma is matter. It is just matter in which the electrons (negatively charged particles) are not bound to their corresponding nuclei (positively charged particles). The light you see in a lightning bolt is just the result of the ions in a plasma recombining to (re)form neutral atoms.

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