Solid, liquid, gas and … plasma? - Michael Murillo
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Have you ever seen static electricity cause a spark of light? What is that spark? What about lightning, the Northern Lights, or the tail of a comet? All of those things and many others – in fact, 99.9% of the universe -- are made of plasma. Michael Murillo gives the full picture on plasma.
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Electrons in conductors, like copper wire, are free to roam throughout the metal in the presence of the ions that have released them. Would you consider a metal to be a plasma?
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- Educator Michael Murillo
- Animator Tomás Pichardo-Espaillat
- Composer Cem Misirlioglu
- Script Editor Amy Adkins
- Narrator Addison Anderson
