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Can Plasma Disinfect Without Damage? Why Bacteria Die and Your Skin Doesn't
Episode 150. Thanks for sticking with the channel. Next in the "Can Plasma?" series: can cold plasma kill bacteria on your skin without burning you? Yes. Three parts: why it stays cool, why bacteria die while your tissue survives, and where the safety limits really are.
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00:00 The question: plasma on skin, bacteria die, no burn?
00:16 Three things to cover
00:28 Why plasma stays cool
00:40 Dielectric barrier discharges were bred for very gentle surface treatment
00:45 My master's/PhD lab did a lot of work with Kodak processing photographic film in plasma
00:59 Uniform, close to…
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