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How Do You Actually Make Plasma? From a $3 Amazon Kit to a Particle Collider
A viewer asked one of the best beginner-friendly questions I've gotten: how do you actually make plasma in a lab? Is it expensive? Can a regular person build one? Great question — with an answer that spans $3 to over a billion dollars, depending on how you want to do it.
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00:00 The question: how do you make plasma? Is it doable at home?
00:11 Quick intro — Greg Friedman, plasma bioengineer
00:54 The four methods: radiation, light, high voltage, and kinetic
01:11 Method 1: Radiation
01:16 Plasma is just ionized gas — radiation ionizes it
01:47 The radiation source itself isn't…
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