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What is "plasma"? How is a fluid measured to be either a gas or a plasma?
Mercury boils at 359 Celsius (632 Kelvin). Mercury vapour is poorly conductive, little ionized (incidentally - monoatomic) and generally defined as a gas.
However, tungsten boils at 5930 C (6203 K).
Photosphere of Sun at 5785 K is generally regarded as plasma, and specifically not gas.
Is tungsten vapour at boiling point a gas, or is it a plasma?
Are there any other elements which lack gas phase because they are plasma at boiling?
Mercury boils at 359 Celsius (632 Kelvin). Mercury vapour is poorly conductive, little ionized (incidentally - monoatomic) and generally defined as a gas.
However, tungsten boils at 5930 C (6203 K).
Photosphere of Sun at 5785 K is generally regarded as plasma, and specifically not gas.
Is tungsten vapour at boiling point a gas, or is it a plasma?
Are there any other elements which lack gas phase because they are plasma at boiling?