Plasma or plasm may refer to:
Science
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Plasma (physics), one of the four fundamental states of matter
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Plasma (mineral), a green translucent silica mineral
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Quark–gluon plasma
Quark–gluon plasma (QGP) or quark soup is an interacting localized assembly of quarks and gluons at thermal (local kinetic) and (close to) chemical (abundance) equilibrium. The word ''plasma'' signals that free color charges are allowed. In a ...
, a state of matter in quantum chromodynamics
Biology
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Blood plasma
Blood plasma is a light amber-colored liquid component of blood in which blood cells are absent, but contains proteins and other constituents of whole blood in suspension. It makes up about 55% of the body's total blood volume. It is the intr ...
, the yellow-colored liquid component of blood, in which blood cells are suspended
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Cytoplasm
In cell biology, the cytoplasm is all of the material within a eukaryotic cell, enclosed by the cell membrane, except for the cell nucleus. The material inside the nucleus and contained within the nuclear membrane is termed the nucleoplasm. Th ...
, a jelly-like substance that fills cells, suspends and protects organelles
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Germ plasm
Germ plasm () is a biological concept developed in the 19th century by the German biologist August Weismann. It states that heritable information is transmitted only by germ cells in the gonads (ovaries and testes), not by somatic cells. The r ...
, a zone in the cytoplasm determining germ cells
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Germplasm
Germplasm are living genetic resources such as seeds or tissues that are maintained for the purpose of animal and plant breeding, preservation, and other research uses. These resources may take the form of seed collections stored in seed banks, ...
, describes a collection of genetic resources for an organism
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Milk plasma or whey, the liquid remaining after milk has been curdled and strained
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Nucleoplasm, a highly viscous liquid that surrounds the chromosomes and nucleoli
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Plasma cell
Plasma cells, also called plasma B cells or effector B cells, are white blood cells that originate in the lymphoid organs as B lymphocytes and secrete large quantities of proteins called antibodies in response to being presented specific substa ...
, white blood cells that secrete large volumes of antibodies
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Protoplasm, the entire living substance inside the cell membrane or cell wall
Technology
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Plasma (engine), a real-time 3D game engine from Cyan Worlds
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Plasma display
A plasma display panel (PDP) is a type of flat panel display that uses small cells containing plasma: ionized gas that responds to electric fields. Plasma televisions were the first large (over 32 inches diagonal) flat panel displays to be release ...
, a flat-panel electronic visual display technology, commonly used for televisions
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Plasma effect, a computer-based animated visual effect, used in graphics demonstrations
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KDE Plasma (disambiguation), graphical environments provided by KDE
Arts, entertainment and media
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''Plasma'' (album), a 2003 live album by Trey Anastasio
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Plasma Records, a record label
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Team Plasma, a fictional villainous organization from ''Pokémon Black and White'' and ''Pokémon Black 2 and White 2''
See also
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Plasma ball (disambiguation)
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Plasma cannon (disambiguation) Plasma cannon may refer to:
*Plasma weapon, a type of raygun that fires a stream, bolt, pulse or toroid of plasma
*Plasma railgun, a linear accelerator which, like a projectile railgun, uses two long parallel electrodes to accelerate a "sliding sho ...
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Plasma gun (disambiguation)
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