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1. Plasma And BEC

2. What is Plasma ?
• A Plasma is an ionized gas.
• A Plasma is a very good conductor of electricity and is affected by
magnetic fields.
• Plasma, like gases have indefinite shape and indefinite volume. And are
less dense than Solids and Liquids.
• 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.

3. How Plasma is Formed
• 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.

4. Discovery of Plasma
• Plasma was first identified in laboratory by Sir William Crookes.
Crookes presented a lecture on what he called "radiant matter" to the
British Association for the Advancement of Science, in Sheffield, on
Friday, 22 August 1879.
• He used “Crookes tube”, an experimental electrical discharge tube in
which air is ionized by the application of a high voltage through a
voltage coil.

5. What is BEC ?
• The fifth state of matter, known as a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC),
has been created in the microgravity of the International Space Station
for the first time.
• Bose-Einstein Condensate (BEC), a state of matter which is formed by
cooling gas to an extremely low density, about one hundred
thousandth the density of normal air, to super low temperatures.
• This exotic and rare form of matter is only produced when a gas of
boson-like particles is cooled to temperatures just above absolute zero
(about -459.67F).
• One application for BEC is for the building of so-called atom lasers,
which could have applications ranging from atomic-scale lithography
to measurement and detection of gravitational fields.

6. Discovery of BEC
• Bose-Einstein condensates were first predicted theoretically by
Satyendra Nath Bose (1894-1974), an Indian physicist who also
discovered the subatomic particle named for him, the boson. Bose was
working on statistical problems in quantum mechanics, and sent his
ideas to Albert Einstein.
• It looks like a dense little lump in the bottom of the magnetic
trap/bowl; kind of like a drop of water condensing out of damp air
onto a cold bowl.

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