Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun interplanetary_gas

1 sense of interplanetary gas

Sense 1
interplanetary gas -- (a rarefied flow of gas and charged particles (plasma) that stream from the sun and form the solar wind)
       => plasma -- ((physical chemistry) a fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors; a gas becomes a plasma when it is heated until the atoms lose all their electrons, leaving a highly electrified collection of nuclei and free electrons; "particles in space exist in the form of a plasma")