I am a bit confused, what is the difference between the plasma in my blood and the actual plasma created by heat?
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Answer:
Blood has two components - the clear liquid and the corpuscles/cells entrapped in it. The clear liquid was named "plasma" by the famous Czech medical scientist (physiologist), Johannes Purkinje (1787-1869).
In 1927, Irving Langmuir- the American chemist was exploring ionized gases (i.e. gases subjected to strong electric field to knock out the electrons from gaseous atom). He used the analogy of blood, with the ions being the corpuscles and the remaining gas being a clear liquid and named the ionized state of a gas as plasma. Thus, this name prevailed.
Types of plasma:
There are More than 100 of different types of Plasma.
Few of them are:
- thermal plasma
- Warm plasma
- non-thermal plasma
- Ultracold plasma
- Fully ionized plasma
- Neutral plasma
- Non-neutral plasma
- Plasmas densities
- High density plasma
- Medium density plasma
- Low density plasma
- Magnetic plasmas
- Magnetic plasma
Plasma In Your Blood:
Plasma is the largest part of your blood. When separated from the rest of the blood, plasma is a light yellow liquid that holds the blood cells of whole blood in suspension. It is the liquid part of the blood that carries cells and proteins throughout the body Plasma carries water, salts and enzymes.
Plasma By Heat:
=> Plasma is superheated matter It is soo hot that the electrons are ripped away from the atoms forming an ionized gas
=> That branch of lightning that cracks the sky is plasma, so are the neon signs along our city streets. And so is our sun, the star that makes life on earth possible.
=> Along with solid, liquid and gas. Just as a liquid will boil, changing into a gas when energy is added, heating a gas will form a plasma – a soup of positively charged particles (ions) and negatively charged particles (electrons).