The seven states of matter that I am investigating are Solids, Liquids, Gases, Ionized Plasma, Quark-Gluon Plasma, Bose-Einstein Condensate and Fermionic Condensate. Solid Definition – Chemistry Glossary Definition of Solid. 2013.

“Plasma is a charged gas, with strong Coulomb [or electrostatic] interactions,” Hu told Live Science. Atoms or molecules can acquire a positive or negative electrical charge when they gain or lose electrons. This process is called ionization.

A plasma is a fluid, like a liquid or gas, but because of the charged particles present in a plasma, it responds to and generates electro-magnetic forces.

A plasma is created when one or more electrons are torn free from an atom. A plasma is generally a mix of these positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons. Most plasmas are created when extra energy is added to a gas, knocking electrons free from atoms. High temperatures often cause plasmas to form.

Because it consists of charged particles, plasma can conduct electricity and respond to a magnetic field. The sun and other stars consist of plasma. Plasma is also found naturally in lightning and the northern and southern lights. Human-made plasma is found in fluorescent lights, plasma TV screens, and plasma spheres.

The reason for the colour of the plasma is the yellow breakdown product bilirubin of the red blood cells. The higher the bilirubin value, the stronger the yellowish orange colour of our blood plasma. When taking hormones such as the pill, for example, the plasma can be yellowish, greenish or orange.

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Already, there is literature evidence for the greenish discoloration of the plasma as a result of pregnancy, intake of birth-control pills containing estrogen, rheumatoid arthritis, and drugs such as sulfonamides or due to sepsis with Gram-negative cryophilic bacteria such as Pseudomonas.

Plasma is normally yellow due to bilirubin, carotenoids, hemoglobin and transferrin. In abnormal cases, plasma can have varying shades of orange, green or brown. Green color can be due to ceruloplasmin or sulfhemoglobin.

Well, for starters, one thing that causes it to be yellow is a pigment called bilirubin. Bilirubin is made when iron-containing compounds in your blood called heme are broken down. Heme makes your red blood cells red and transports oxygen in your blood.

They show that after eating animal products, the athletes’ blood plasma was slightly more cloudy and conclude that clear blood plasma is a sign of good endothelium function.