ELI5. I’m a kid and have a few questions about plasma

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4 questions

1. Can a plasma be cooled down to a gas

2. Is lightning a plasma

3. If the first and second question answers are yes, what is lightning as a gas?

4. Can lightning go up then down in a curve? A bit like a rainbow

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The only basic difference between a ‘gas’ and a plasma is that in one the particles are neutral, in other, they are ionized. That’s all. It’s kind of like ionic bonded and covalent bonded solid. Or a metal and a non-metal.

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