Plasma

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Original poster: "davep by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <davep-at-quik-dot-com>

Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <KLogan2026-at-aol-dot-com>
 
> In a message dated 2/22/02 2:05:06 PM, tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
 
> << A plasma nead not be hot,

	It does.

> it only must be ionized.

	Ionized is another way of saying 'hot'.

	MANY plasmas are low energy enough, or of small enough
	total power that the 'heat' is insensible to things like
	thermometers, or skin.

> Ion burns are sadistic as they tend to penetrate tissue and degrade
> the cells, which heals slow.
>   Robert  H

>     Hi again!
>     We had no idea there was more than one way to get burns.

	The word 'burn' is a loose one, which covers many detailed
	scenarios.

> We kind of thought all burns worked the same way a lit match works.

	Any flame (eg: a lit match) plasma.
	(hint:
	Measuring the electrical conductivity of a flame will
	demonstrate this, and is not hard to do....)

	It is common to speak of 'plasma' as something 'new and
	strange'.  Full(er) understanding of plasma is recent,
	however.

	best
	dwp