How to Use plasma in a Sentence

plasma

noun
  • Our new TV is a 50-inch plasma.
  • The plasma, which is the liquid part of the blood, is easy to restore.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 3 Aug. 2022
  • One of the crew members then used the plasma cutter to cut a piece out of the top of the tire as sparks flew out.
    Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2024
  • Buy young blood for the plasma and inject it to slow the aging process.
    Marianne Garvey, CNN, 28 July 2022
  • The tokamak is lined with strong magnets that hold the plasma in.
    Angela Dewan, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
  • In some cases, like with this flare, plumes of plasma can also be part of the process.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • The global plasma industry has, to say the least, a troubling past.
    Adam Gaffney, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
  • One is that the plasma interacts with the satellite itself, Spencer said.
    al, 31 Aug. 2022
  • Sunspots are the sites of powerful magnetic storms where plasma wells up and falls back to the surface.
    Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 14 June 2023
  • And then this plasma glows in all kinds of fantastic colors.
    IEEE Spectrum, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Those locations included the brain, plasma, the heart, lymph nodes, adrenal gland, and eyes.
    Erin Prater, Fortune, 17 Dec. 2022
  • These beams also heat the plasma and supply it with fresh fuel.
    IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2023
  • The coronal holes are cooler and less dense relative to the plasma that surrounds them.
    Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
  • This rechargeable device features a plasma lighter rather than flame for the ability to light things in the wind, rain, or snow.
    Collin Morgan, Car and Driver, 4 Jan. 2023
  • The platelet-rich plasma, or PRP, is produced after the blood extraction process.
    Lauren Tappan, Town & Country, 25 July 2022
  • The test runs a laser along the length of a hair, using its energy to turn it into a plasma for analysis.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 5 Jan. 2023
  • After three hours, the team found that drug plasma concentrations in dogs with the patch were more than 150 times higher than in the dogs that took a tablet.
    Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Sep. 2023
  • Similarly, in a star’s core, heat can push huge flows of plasma up and out to then crash into the core’s perimeter.
    Timmy Broderick, Scientific American, 31 July 2023
  • Find your local plasma donor center and call to confirm the requirements in your state.
    Hannah Oh, Seventeen, 18 Nov. 2022
  • CMEs are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the Sun that reach Earth within 15 to 18 hours.
    Bradford Betz, Fox News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Sometimes, the sun also shoots out huge amounts of plasma in what’s known as a coronal mass ejection, Brasher said.
    Time, 13 July 2023
  • Here, kilowatt-class lasers zap droplets of molten tin in midflight, blasting them into plasma that glows with EUV.
    IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2023
  • Then, as the universe cooled, light that was trapped in the elemental plasma fog finally broke free.
    Quanta Magazine, 19 Jan. 2024
  • Thanks to a teammate, Zack Conti won’t have to sell his plasma to pay for college anymore.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 9 Aug. 2023
  • That plasma contains platelets, which are injected into the scalp to promote hair growth.
    Jeannine Morris Lombardi, Allure, 16 Sep. 2022
  • The tests, which use either a blood or plasma sample, promise to return results in under half an hour.
    Lizzy Lawrence, STAT, 17 July 2023
  • Our own star, the Sun, sometimes launches huge clouds of plasma into space called coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The modern plasma industry has put safeguards in place.
    Adam Gaffney, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Kane credits the show’s cast and crew for explicating to her why Pelia would, say, request that the Enterprise vent plasma out of the warp nacelles.
    Adam B. Vary, Variety, 15 June 2023
  • As a thank you, all who come to give blood, platelets or plasma Sept. 1-18 will receive a limited-edition Red Cross T-shirt, while supplies last.
    Gretchen Cuda Kroen, cleveland, 28 Aug. 2023

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