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Plasma (physics) was one of the Natural sciences good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the good article criteria. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.

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Date	Process	Result
April 6, 2006	Good article nominee	Listed
August 18, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
February 24, 2008	Good article reassessment	Kept
May 20, 2017	Good article reassessment	Delisted
Current status: Delisted good article

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Supercritical fluids[edit]

This article needs to be reviewed and edited with attention to supercritical fluids. For instance, the remark that there are three other states of matter with clear transitions between them is not entirely correct. 1.145.48.244 (talk) 04:35, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I updated the phrasing to "is relatively not well defined". VQuakr (talk) 04:46, 2 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Opinionated judgemental language[edit]

In the section of the article about filaments the following appears: “One interesting aspect”. To say it’s an “interesting aspect is seemingly entirely a personal judgement and not encyclopedic or necessary or appropriate.

If somebody who can edit the article would edit the article regarding that that would be something. 2600:1700:BA0:FC40:B487:B454:9EDB:6FB8 (talk) 03:27, 18 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 14 September 2023[edit]

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!! Gas !! Plasma Hannah Loise Warner (talk) 20:10, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand this comment. Evgeny (talk) 09:58, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 11 December 2023[edit]

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"It is the most abundant form of ordinary matter in the universe, mostly in stars (including the Sun), but also dominating the rarefied intracluster medium and intergalactic medium."

Does this statement count for black holes please? The "ordinary matter" page does not specifically state: black holes not included! Please maybe make a note somewhere around this sentence about black holes. Thank You! Ezixen (talk) 01:36, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Are you talking about matter that has "fallen into" black holes? Remsense留 01:38, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Nobody knows what is inside black holes. As such, I would be hesitant to call that matter "ordinary". In any case, by modern estimates the total mass of black holes is like 1% or so of the total barionic mass of the Universe (e.g., see https://www.space.com/how-many-black-holes-universe). What made you think otherwise? Evgeny (talk) 10:11, 11 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Lewcm Talk to me! 13:26, 15 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]