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How Ionized Does It Have to Be to Be Plasma? The Simple Answer (And the PhD Answer)
A viewer asked a great foundational question: how ionized does something have to be to be called plasma? Some sources say all electrons stripped from all atoms. Others say one is enough. What's the actual answer? Here's the simple version and the PhD version.
⏱️ Chapters
00:00 The question: how ionized to count as plasma?
00:07 Quick intro, Greg Friedman, plasma bioengineer
00:16 Reading the viewer's question in full
00:24 One source says: strip every electron from every atom
00:31 The viewer's guess: one electron, not all atoms
00:39 Do highly excited atoms count? Is the cutoff 1%? 50%?…
The skinny
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