Plasma makes up a very large percentage of the matter in the universe. Not much of it is on Earth and the plasma that is here is very short lived or stuck in a tube. Plasma is basically what happens when you add enough energy to a gas that the atoms move and vibrate around so energetically that they smack into each other and rip electrons off each other, so you have positively charged atoms (called ions) that lost their electrons, and also the electrons themselves which are negatively charged, all zinging around in the gas.
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