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Plasma

noun

The colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that contains no cells, but in which the blood cells (erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended. Synonyms: blood plasma, plasm.

A green slightly translucent variety of chalcedony used as a gemstone.

(physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons.

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Words linked to "Plasma" : physical chemistry, calcedony, extracellular fluid, state of matter, state, gamma globulin, human gamma globulin, chalcedony, ECF, interplanetary gas