Google's been giving me some pretty vague results on this subject....
I have to write a report on one the the elements (for me, lithium), and I decided I'd do a little extra and have a little section on plasma. However, we've never covered it, so I don't really know much about it.
Does a gas become a plasma when an electrical current passes through it, or at a certain temperature? Both?
Are all the electron shells stripped of electrons, or just some?
At what point does lithium become a ionized/recombine? Is that even possible?
Thanks a lot. =)
PS- I'm talking specifically about 7^Li, but 6^Li is stable so I guess that could work for an answer.
PPS- Is it true if you bombard 7^Li with protons it turns into 8^Mg and has a nuclear reaction?
