But they are the same effect Papageno, only in glass the electrons don't recoil because they are fixed in a crystal lattice. In the plasma of space the electrons recoil on absorption and re-emission so energy is lost to the electron. Photon loses energy, frequency reduces wavelength increases. It is redshifted. easy.
So they are the same effect so they have the same name.
As for mono poles etc, plasma is neutral there is a positive charge for every negative one. in fact some treatments of plasma divide it into 'virtual atoms' - cubes containing equal quantites of positive and negative charge, and they oscillate!
Cheers,
Lyndon
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