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
  • But on Jupiter, the process is likely tied to changes in the plasma streaming off Io.
    Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 3 June 2021
  • In some cases, like with this flare, plumes of plasma can also be part of the process.
    Kerry Breen, CBS News, 5 July 2023
  • In the words of the authors, the cooler plasma slid back, like cars along a roller coaster track.
    Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • The process to collect plasma begins with the patient on a bed.
    Jesse Leavenworth, courant.com, 7 Oct. 2021
  • All the atoms within a plasma have lost some of their electrons.
    Karmela Padavic-Callaghan, Wired, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The physicist Akira Hasegawa came up with the concept in the 1980s, based on his study of plasma around Jupiter.
    Laura Paddison, CNN, 29 Nov. 2024
  • The plasma machine is switched off with eight minutes left to go.
    Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 15 June 2024
  • The plasma machine is switched off with eight minutes left to go.
    Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2024
  • The plasma contains white blood cells and platelets, which are rich in what are known as growth factors.
    Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 2 Feb. 2022
  • The drag of these winds on the slow-moving plasma streams creates friction.
    Quanta Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • The global plasma industry has, to say the least, a troubling past.
    Adam Gaffney, The New Republic, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Wajnberg said the Mount Sinai team plans to follow the 121 plasma donors for at least a full year.
    Mark Johnson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Oct. 2020
  • The plasma that makes up the accretion disk comes from farther out in the galaxy.
    David Garofalo, The Conversation, 31 Mar. 2025
  • The flow of plasma within the sun creates the star’s magnetic field.
    Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 May 2024
  • The idea is that the plasma can help the immune response of patients still fighting the disease.
    Jacqueline Howard, CNN, 22 Oct. 2020
  • In that short time frame, a fluid called the quark-gluon plasma shows up, and all the quarks and gluons talk to each other.
    Henry Carnell, Quanta Magazine, 10 Jan. 2025
  • One of the most popular in-office ones is platelet-rich plasma (PRP).
    Audrey Noble, Vogue, 15 July 2024
  • Details in the images show plasma, which covers the sun, that appears to boil.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 24 Dec. 2020
  • Jupiter gets most of its plasma from its moon Io, the most volcanic object known to science.
    Quanta Magazine, 22 June 2021
  • 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
  • This leads to the ultrafiltration of plasma (the liquid portion of blood) in the wound.
    Laura Schober, Health, 27 Dec. 2024
  • The northern lights appear when coronal mass ejections are hurled out by the sun, sending plasma and magnetic material to collide with Earth’s magnetic field.
    Addy Bink, The Hill, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Today, almost all of that hydrogen is ionized, existing in a super-heated plasma state.
    ArsTechnica, 16 Apr. 2025

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