Sample Sentences for
plasma
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plasma as in:  The Red Cross delivered plasma

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Most people have about 5 liters of blood, 3 liters of which is plasma.
plasma = the liquid portion of blood
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    She has a rare disease that is treated with plasma protein therapy.
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    They're giving him plasma now.  (source)
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    I'd heard there was a clinic near the mall that paid people for plasma.  (source)
    plasma = blood
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    There were hints of much worse things around us now like a faint odor in the air, evoked by words like "plasma" and "psycho" and "sulfa," strange words like that with endings like Latin nouns.  (source)
    plasma = the liquid portion of blood
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    Tojo was found in his home that day, sitting in a chair, blood gushing from a self-inflicted bullet wound in his chest. Whispering "Banzai!" and saying he'd rather die than face trial, Tojo was given a pint of American blood plasma, then taken to a hospital.  (source)
    plasma = blood
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    And he was always brandishing an oversize plasma rifle the size of a snowmobile.†  (source)
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    An old movie plays on an antique plasma-screen TV.†  (source)
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    He had been rated in plasma grenades, he!†  (source)
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    Swooning at the plasma center, that was a nice touch.†  (source)
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    He wondered if he'd need some drugs and decided to grab an armful, along with two units of plasma.†  (source)
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    Me: "It does not taste like God Himself cooked heaven into a series of five dishes which were then served to you accompanied by several luminous balls of fermented, bubbly plasma while actual and literal flower petals floated down all around your canal-side dinner table."†  (source)
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    After a few months at the Ohio Senate, as my bills piled up and I found fewer and fewer ways to make up the difference between my spending and my income (one can donate plasma only twice per week, I learned), I decided to get another job.†  (source)
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    At one end of the living room, a big leather couch faced a plasma-screen TV with about six different game systems stacked in the media cabinet.†  (source)
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plasma as in:  a plasma gas

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In a plasma, electrons and positive ions are attracted to each other, but are too energetic to stay together.
plasma = an ionized gas (typically at high temperature) that is a good conductor of electricity and reacts to magnetic fields
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They're watching DVDs of Friends on a giant, monolithic plasma screen.  (source)
plasma = a type of television display technology that was popular in the early 2000s that utilized ionized gas
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