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How does a plasma thruster work?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Can Anything Be a Plasma?

A plasma is basically just regular matter that's heated up so much that it breaks the atoms. You can also have a plasma out of, like, iron. And nino, you said it happens in the sun, and it happens when heat things up,. B ther are other ways that you can make plasma that doesn't heat them up that much? i think you can use radio waves or some sort of radiation to create a plasma liken your dust top. Yet, we have plasma all around us. Like fluorescent lights have a plasma in them, right? That's why they glow.

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