| Show What Is In Between Matter Not Metal By JAMES COOK Chronicle Staff Writer is not a gas because it has a force which holds it and it is not a metal because it is too said Melvin director of the Institute of Metals and Explosive PLASMA is a new form of Cook has a promising future to be one of man's greatest Plasmas are formed when a charge is exploded or high temperature is but these types of plasmas only last for approximately of a Others may last Plasmas conduct electricity and will yield to magnetic These properties have made them PLASMAS may permit one to strike a nuclear reaction and control They may also hold the secret to space travel by providing an economical way of converting nuclear fuels into useful propulsion Cook When plasmas are used as a propellant of a magnetic field might be used as an exhaust in place of a Metal would melt when it came in contact with but the magnetic field would not allow the torrid plasma to touch any metal THE EXISTENCE of plasmas had been known for sometime by the presence of plasmas in detonation and its cohesion properties were discovered at the University in 1958 by the The Institute is currently working on a project to study the fundamental characteristics of the plasmas generated in |
