How do the particles in plasmas compare with the particles in solids?

Answer 1

Electrically conducting medium in which there are roughly equal numbers of positively and negatively charged particles, produced when the atoms in a gas become ionized .). Plasma is sometimes called the fourth state of matter(the first three being solid, liquid, and gas). A plasma is unique in the way it interacts with itself, with electric and magnetic fields, and with its environment. It can be thought of as a collection of ions, electrons, neutral atoms and molecules, and photons in which some atoms are being ionized at the same time as electrons are recombining with other ions to form neutral particles, while photons are continuously being produced and absorbed. It is estimated that more than 99% of the matter in the universe exists in the plasma state.

Answer 2

The major difference is that a plasma is (1) a mixture of nanometer scale entities that collective have the kinetic motion properties of the particles of a gas at the temperature of the plasma, including spontaneously expanding volume without limit until it encounters an impermeable wall, but (2) the plasma has a sufficiently high energy that it can so contain a stable mixture of kinetic entities with both positive and negative charges, without any permanent bonds between them. A molten salt or other ionic liquid has the second property but not the first, and an ordinary gas has the first property but not the second.

Answer 3

Solid, liquid or gas are having neutral atoms or molecules. But the fourth state of matter known as plasma is having only ions (both negative and positive)

So plasma is ionic state of matter.

Answer 4

plasma is more of a liquid than a solid plasma is more of a liquid than a solid

Answer 5

Normally yes, however in the core of a star the plasma my be compressed to be much denser than a normal solid.

Answer 6

Plasma is a mixture of charged particles, is very hot, is electrically conductive, is the most common form of matter in the Universe.

Answer 7

Plasma is a mixture of ions and electrons at very high temperature.