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Re:Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor by dmurray on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:39AM (#27151781)
Metal vs gas is a poor choice of dichotomy: every element is a gas at the right temperature and pressure.
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Re:Freshly made plutonium from outer space found on ocean floor by pcl on Friday May 14, 2021 @04:21AM (#27152004)
I would guess that they aren’t distinguishing on the basis of phase state, but rather atomic number.

Astronomers presumably mostly think about matter in the form of a star, in which presumably all the hydrogen and helium would be in some sort of plasma state, and perhaps all the “metals” would be too.

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