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Why isn't plasma a state of matter?

Updated: 9/25/2023
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Plasma is a state of matter.

However it only happens at such high temperature and is so different from the other three states of matter, that it is usually omitted from lower level physics classes.

The mathematics needed to analyze plasma (electromagnetohydrodynamics or quantum electromagnetohydrodynamics) is far more complicated than the mathematics needed to analyze gases or liquids (fluid dynamics), making plasma far harder to understand.

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