Creating a Fast-Melting Plasma Cutter for Science Projects

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I've been wanting to make a plasma cutter that can melt metal fairly fast. I was just wondering how to! Also I was wondering if plasma is attracted to magnets, because I want to make a sort of force field but won't go into details.

I want to do this for a science project and info would help!


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You need big dangerous voltages, ways to control these voltages, compressed air and the torch/leads. You can't convert a welder to one either.

Unless you're going to turn into an electrical engineer I would leave this one alone and just buy one.
 
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