Толковый словарь английского языка - plasma

noun see: plaster Date: 1772 a green faintly translucent quartz, 2. New Latin, from Late Latin] the fluid part of blood, lymph, or milk as distinguished from suspended material, the juice that can be expressed from muscle, protoplasm, a collection of charged particles (as in the atmospheres of stars or in a metal) containing about equal numbers of positive ions and electrons and exhibiting some properties of a gas but differing from a gas in being a good conductor of electricity and in being affected by a magnetic field, a display (as a television screen) consisting of discrete cells of ~ sandwiched between two layers of glass and electrodes such that each cell emits light when it receives an electric current, ~tic adjective