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How does a plasma thruster work?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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How Does a Plasma Thruster Work?

Fluorescent lights, like the lights we all have in our s and in stores and stuff, that's plasma. That's like a canister of plasma. And neon for example, neon lights, those have plasma inside them. So how does a plasma thruster work? Like, how would you use something like fl fluorescent light to push your through space? While a plasma is glowing, it's giving off energy. Its stuff moving around fast. The primm of the plasma is ta genera, glows in every direction - so it's sort of throwing momentum off in every direction. But if you could build a bottle around it that bends the particles back into the plasma, bu

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