Suppose you were given a substance and asked to determine weather or not it was a plasma. Write the characteristics you would look for to identify the substance.

Particles and plasmas collide more often. Plasma particles have high kinetic energy (they move more quickly). Plasma particles are far apart. The ionized particles have no fixed.

Electrical conductivity, electromagnetism, and temperature are the features that one would look for in order to determine plasma. Plasma refers to a hot ionized gas possessing high electrical conductivity. It is electrically neutral with negative and positive particles. It can be considered the most abundant form of matter in the universe.

The features of plasma are substantially distinct from those of the usual neutral gases so that plasmas are regarded as a different fourth state of matter.