Real-life Devices
Currently, there are several real tools that are somewhat related to fictional plasma weapons:
- Plasma torches, which have existed for some years, project plasma streams a foot at most, and are used to cut metal and concrete.
- The plasma gun as used in plasma physics.
- Shiva Star is an attempt to make a real plasma-firing directed-energy weapon for use in space.
- Microscopic, very short plasma bursts from Nd:YAG lasers are used in medicine, most widely in ophthalmology.
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