Plasma

from Websters, 1986, page 900:

• something molded flat
• a green faintly translucent quartz
• 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 (1772).

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