superplasma
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[edit]superplasma (countable and uncountable, plural superplasmas)
- (physics, rare) Extremely powerful plasma.
- 2006, Alexander R. Pruss, The Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Reassessment[1], Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 192:
- Analogously, if I believed that the only enmattered intelligent are humans and had a crazy neighbor who believed in the existence of "superplasma"-based sapient aliens, I would not need to understand the concept of "superplasma" to believe my neighbor's claims to be false --- if would suffice that I would know that whatever my neighbor meant by it, it was a form of matter.
- 2016, Ross Barrett, Pier Paolo Delsanto, Angelo Tartaglia, Physics: The Ultimate Adventure[3], Springer International Publishing, →ISBN, page 168:
- However, just after the phase transition, the appearance of an immense number of different particles in a corresponding number of degrees of freedom, and in practice produces an increase of the temperature of the cosmic medium (which is now a sort of "superplasma").