What happens if we heat up the plasma enough?

  • Level: High School 
  • Thread starter Thread starter Prof.gaming
  • Start date Start date
  • Tags Tags
    Heat Plasma
Join the discussion
Registration is free. Start your own thread to ask a follow-up.
2 replies · 3K views
Prof.gaming
Messages
18
Reaction score
0
I was wondering , because all I know is that we got solid . Heat it up enough and you get liquid . Heat that up enough too and boom ! There's gas . Plasma is another transformation in this category , in this case , about heating up the gas enough . And I wanted to know , if there is anything after that ? Or do we even know if there is or not ?
 
Physics news on Phys.org
Plasma is made up of the parts of atoms - protons, neutrons, and/or electrons - that have been dissociated from each other. If you keep increasing the temperature, eventually you will get a quark-gluon plasma, where the quarks in the nuclei would be separated, except that it's impossible to separate quarks from the nucleus? If you put enough force trying to separate them, I am not sure but I think it makes more quarks, some of which annihilate each other? Anyway, I can't think of anything hotter than a quark-gluon plasma.
 
Last edited: