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No. plasma is a phase of matter distinct from either liquid or gas.

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There are four states of matter: Solid, liquid, gas and plasma.

The closest comparison would be to gas. But calling plasma a gas is about as accurate as calling a liquid a "solid".

A liquid is only a solid in comparison to gas, and plasma is only similar to a gas in that a substance must pass from a state of gas into another form of matter to become plasma.

Much like how some substances can transition from one state of matter to another: a classical example: water in natural temperature is liquid, frozen it becomes solid, heated it becomes gas; extremely ionized it transitions from gas to plasma.

In the most non-scientific explanation: A plasma can be considered as a gas of highly ionized particles, but the powerful inter-ionic forces lead to distinctly different properties beyond that of what should be classified as a gas, so that it is usually considered as a different phase or state of matter in physics discussions.

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