I only know plasma is a form of matter too,But the rest of the information gets really difficult to comprehend.
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Hot solids are liquids. Hot liquids are gases. Hot gases are plasmas. They look like gases, but are magnetized, electrified, and sometimes glow. This happens because the electrons in the gas atoms have gained enough energy to escape the atom’s influence, like a thermal escape velocity.
Probably the most famous instances of plasma are the sun and stars, and lights.
Neon lights use gases like neon, xenon, krypton, etc. that glow when heated up enough.
Incandescent and halogen lights use a small amount of gas to help maintain a vacuum so the bulb doesn’t fry it’s wiring too quickly (a few seconds instead of a few months or years in a vacuum).
CFL’s use gases heated to plasma that glow like neon lights, but in the ultraviolet range we can’t see. Glow in the dark paint called a “phosphor” then turns this into light we can see.
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