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Questions about the 4th state of matter, namely a mixture of particles like ions, free electrons and usually also neutral atoms or molecules.

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Are plasma nuclei detectable? By the occasional emission of gamma rays, perhaps?

As stated above.... How often do nuclei stripped bare emit radiation? Can nuclei be identified by the wavelengths or amplitudes of gamma rays they emit? How about isotopes?
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How is the H II 'region' directly detectable? By Compton or Thomson free-particle scattering...

The Wikipedia page on H II regions says that they are 'indirectly' detectable by the detection of doubly-ionized oxygen atoms mixed in.... (I am presuming atoms, not diatomic molecules...) But are fre …
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Do free protons and neutrons absorb much radiation? To affect astronomers' observations? If ...

In a plasma, or wherever, do the completely ionized nuclei commonly absorb much EM radiation? Or any free neutrons or protons? Can astronomers detect this? Enough so that astronomers take it into a …
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Do the newly-created deuterons in our Sun release any photons? In addition to a positron and...

Perhaps this is a nuclear physics question, but.... When two colliding protons deep inside our Sun finally turn into a deuterium nucleus or deutron (after approximately ten octillion chances, on avera …
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