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An definition of plasma that I find personally appealing is the forward

“A plasma is everything that has the properties of a plasma”

This is used to imply the novel phenomena that appear in a collective medium, such as a plasma, that are absent in “ordinary” everyday matter.

Some characteristic examples of plasma behavior

1) Debye Shielding

2) Plasma oscillations

3) Waves in plasmas