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What happens to super heated plasma when it cools?
I understand that plasma is a state of matter that's been heated to the point where it's stripped of it's electrons, leaving just a naked atom. What happens if this naked atom cools down, but there are no electrons around for it to capture? Will it stay in a plasma state, only cool? And say an iron atom or a gold atom (or any kind of atom) that's been in a plasma state cools down - when it does capture the requisite amount of electrons again, will it still be the same sort of element it was before it's plasma state?
First, yes, once a nucleus regains its electrons, it will be exactly the same molecule it was before it 'lost' them.
Concerning what happens to the 'lost electrons, it is important to consider just how strong the electrical force really is. If you compare it to gravity, it is a LOT stronger, In fact, it is about a thousand trillion trillion trillion times stronger. (1000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. times stronger). So an imbalance of these charges is very powerful, and has more than enough force to attract whatever is needed to redress the imbalance.
The point is that even if one could manage to separate the electrons from plasma, it would take an enormous amount of force, and that force would be 'trying' to balance itself.
Remember that plasma means that the atoms and electrons are no longer in close association, not that the electrons are completely absent. It is just that they are in a more fluid state, but still statistically balancing the protons of the nuclei.
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