Peppers Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 Hi, just wondering what plasma is and what it is being used for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ydoaPs Posted June 8, 2005 Share Posted June 8, 2005 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppers Posted June 8, 2005 Author Share Posted June 8, 2005 Ahhh, thanks I've never really used wikipedia before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calbiterol Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 It's a wonderful resource. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppers Posted June 9, 2005 Author Share Posted June 9, 2005 Also, since plasma is the fourth state of matter, is there a fifth? In other words, if you heat up plasma even more, what is the next big phase transition that the atoms would undergo? Would nuclear fission occur if matter was heated to extremely high temperatures? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecoli Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 no fisson has little to do with heat. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_fission edit: note, the important thing about plasma, is that it's not only super heated, but it's also charged Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[Tycho?] Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 Also, since plasma is the fourth state of matter, is there a fifth? In other words, if you heat up plasma even more, what is the next big phase transition that the atoms would undergo? Would nuclear fission occur if matter was heated to extremely high temperatures? There are other forms of matter, like Bose-Enstien condensate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5614 Posted June 9, 2005 Share Posted June 9, 2005 You spelt Einstein wrong... traitor! Are super fluids classified as a 5th state? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppers Posted June 9, 2005 Author Share Posted June 9, 2005 Are super fluids classified as a 5th state? Wikipedia says they are! Learning is fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppers Posted June 9, 2005 Author Share Posted June 9, 2005 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/States_of_matter The most familiar examples of phases are solids, liquids, and gases. Less familiar phases include plasmas and quark-gluon plasmas, Bose-Einstein condensates and fermionic condensates, strange matter, liquid crystals, superfluids and supersolids and the paramagnetic and ferromagnetic phases of magnetic materials. That's a lot more than high school teaches. When would one learn about these different phases in university, and what courses are they usually in, chemistry or physics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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