Generally plasmas are pretty tenuous, low density. In the very, very extreme conditions of a fusion reactor. The hottest place in the solar system, the plasma might kill you.

If by lightning you mean the flash of light that reaches you, then no, lightning doesn’t have mass. Light is massless. If to you, lightning is this stream of charges, then yes, lightning does have mass; it is made of electrons.

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Created when positive and negative charges in the atmosphere equalize, lightning is neither solid, liquid, nor gas; it’s the fourth state of matter, known as plasma.

If you touch the plasma ball, all of the electrons will go through you to the ground. You see only one big spark inside the ball where you put your hand. If you touch it long enough, you get filled with electrons and can light up a light bulb!

Generally, the answer is that yes, plasma balls are safe. They’re not going to cause you any harm if you use them in the right manner.

If you break the glass, the fill gas will dissipate and be replaced by ambient air. In contrast with the noble gases, air is a mixture of mostly molecular gases that offer many more pathways for energy from electrical excitation to be dissipated.

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Plasma balls don’t emit gamma rays or even X rays (have a look here). However, they emit some other forms of radiation which is still capable of energizing electrons to create electron-ion pairs.

The plasma ball operates when voltage is introduced in the miniature Tesla coil, creating an electric field inside the ball. As the electrode is negatively charged, the escaping electrons are introduced into the larger glass ball, where they interact with positively charged ions floating around inside.

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Now all this plasma globe and etc the temperature is room temp only. The electron gets high temperature up to 20000 degree K, but there only 1 or 2% of total gas is ionized.

The plasma ball is a miniature Tesla coil. Inside the ball is a coil of wires that have electrons going through them oscillating at a very high frequency. This shakes the atoms around the wires so hard that their electrons start to fall off! Inside the glass globe is a partial vacuum.

Modern plasma lamps are a family of light sources that generate light by exciting plasma inside a closed transparent burner or bulb using radio frequency (RF) power. Typically, such lamps use a noble gas or a mixture of these gases and additional materials such as metal halides, sodium, mercury or sulfur.

At that high temperature the lightning column is a plasma, a gas with many of its atoms broken into electrically-charged particles, both negatively-charged electrons and positively-charged ions. In about 90% of global cloud-to-ground lightning, negative charge is effectively transported from a cloud to the ground.

The graceful purple arcs of plasma dancing in a plasma ball are created by a large alternating voltage at its centre, and that alternating voltage creates an electromagnetic field with which we can light a fluorescent tube.

Naturally occurring plasmas can reach temperatures of up to 106eV (1eV ~ 11600K) [1], in industrial ap-plications maximum temperatures lie around 1eV [2].

“A plasma is sometimes referred to as being “hot” if it is nearly fully ionized, or “cold” if only a small fraction, (for instance 1%) of the gas molecules are ionized, but other definitions of the terms “hot plasma” and “cold plasma” are common.

A plasma cutter can chew through up to 200 inches of material per minute. Scientists and engineers have been working on improving the technology to increase the heat. So far, from less than 35 inches per minute to 200 inches per minute, they have gained tremendous traction.