Glow discharge history

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History. The term plasma was first used by Langmuir in 1928 to describe the main body of a gas discharge (1). Use of the term reflects the Greek origin of the word, to mold. Artificially induced glowing gas discharges mold themselves to the shape of their container and to items being processed within. 

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