The result is a highly charged, ionized gas called plasma that burns with a bluish glow.

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It contained details on refined plasma actuator technology, which uses ionized gas to improve aircraft control.

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The cylinders' downpipes merge in an underslung exhaust nacelle that looks like it should vent ionized plasma.

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If our solar system's disk wasn't ionized, its material would not have been funneled onto the young sun's surface, researchers said.

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Virtually nothing at national levels is stored as electrons, not even at your iPad level where watt-hours are stored in batteries in an intermediate form as ionized chemical molecules.

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You wouldn't immediately think of the ear's cochlea as an energy source, but MIT knows that every mammal effectively has a pair of very small power plants because of the ionized environment.

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