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    • Images showing 3 plasma forms: Sun, lightening, plasma cutting
    Rights: Sun image, courtesy of NASA Lightning image courtesy of Postit, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Plasma cutting image courtesy of Robotworx, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported Published 29 April 2014 Size: 280 KB Referencing Hub media

    Plasmas occur naturally but can also be artificially made. Naturally occurring plasmas can be Earth-based (terrestrial) or space-based (astrophysical).

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      Plasmas explained

      We happily live in the Earth’s gaseous lower atmosphere composed of a mixture of gases – primarily nitrogen and oxygen. However, if we move upwards from the Earth’s surface, the environment ...

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