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Whats the difference between fire and plasma?

People have described some fires as plasma, but is all plasma a fire? I guess more specifically is a plasma cutter a flame?
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Plasma is just gas where some of the electrons have been knocked off so that it becomes electrically conductive and responsive to magnetic fields.  Fire can produce a plasma, but most of what you see when you look at a campfire is actually leftover carbon particles from incomplete combustion that have been heated up to the point where they glow.  If you want to take a closer look at actual plasma, just turn on a gas stove or a bunsen burner.  The bluish flame comes from electrons moving around in the orbitals of unstable reaction intermediaries like CH and C2.

Flames aren't the only way to produce plasmas, though.  Plasma cutters, for instance, generate their plasma by passing an electrical arc through gas that's being forced through a nozzle.  Neon lights do the same, only the gas is kept in a glass tube.  The sun makes it's plasma with gravitational compression and fusion.  You can even cut a grape in half, stick it in your microwave, and make a little ball of plasma.