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Can Plasma Run in Plain Air? Yes. Dirty, Stinky Hospital Air Works Best.
Next in the "Can Plasma?" series: can you make plasma in plain air, the air we breathe? Yes, it's that simple. And a funny PhD story: I spent half a year testing every exotic gas combination, and plain humid room air beat them all.
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00:00 Can you make plasma in plain air? Yes.
00:12 Air is the easiest feed gas there is
00:20 Funny story: half a year of my PhD and a couple of thesis chapters on this
00:38 My thesis: plasma interaction with living tissue (wound healing, coagulation, sterilization)
01:03 My hypothesis: reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, plus charges, kill bacteria…
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