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Is fire plasma?
Is Fire a Plasma?
If not, what is it then?
If yes why, don't we teach kids this basic example?
UPDATE: I probably meant a regular commonplace fire of the usual temperature. That should simplify ...
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Does Fire Conduct Electricity? Why?
Recently, I have stumbled upon a YouTube video by Veritasium describing the conductivity of fire. My question is: how exactly does fire conduct electricity? I am a high school student; therefore ...
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Why were space physicists wrong about the location of the heliopause?
The heliopause is now estimated to be something around 100 AU (1 AU = Astronomical unit = about the earth sun distance). See the wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliosphere
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How to debunk 'The Electric Universe'?
My father is a generally intelligent person, however he has latched onto a theory which I believe to be completely incorrect.
He doesn't believe in gravity, but rather subscribes to an 'Electrical ...
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Pressures Necessary for Carbon Detonation
Carbon detonation is a characteristic event of Type 1a Supernova (EDIT: where an accreting white dwarf near the Chandrashankar limit of 1.4 solar masses explodes), an extremely important standard ...
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What is non-thermal plasma?
I read about non-thermal plasma, but I still have some questions:
The ions and neutral particles are not in thermal equilibrium with the electron, does that mean that the overall temperature is low ...
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Where on Earth can you find plasma?
Ok, so not that 'where on earth', like literally - 'Where on Earth'.
Where on Earth, can you find matter in the 4th state, i.e. the plasma state?
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Plasma and Plasma Globes
Plasma is the fourth state of matter. Wikipedia says, that all the gaseous atoms will be ionized into positive ions and free electrons at extremely high temperatures. But, what does this explain in a ...
