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If the TSA was going to ban an entire phase of matter from the cabins of their planes, couldn't they have started with plasmas? I mean, not allowing passengers to bring plasmas onto a plane would be a reasonable security measure in my opinion.
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I'm not much of a physicist, how portable is plasma?
Can I get a convenient purse/briefcase/backpack sized plasma bottle?
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Not terribly, I think. I mean, it's gas which has had enough energy pumped into it that electrons aren't really bound to individual atoms. I guess small amounts could be contained with cleverly placed electromagnetic equipment... after all, a plasma tv manages it, right? But I don't think it's very convenient. (I am not a physicist, and when I was a chemist I never worked with plasma.)