plasmagenic

English

Etymology 1

From plasmagene + -ic. First attested in the 1950s.

Adjective

plasmagenic (not comparable)

  1. Of, relating to, or designating a plasmagene.
    • 1968, Proceedings - Issue 3, page 371:
      Any difference between the original lines and the selections must be due either to dominant nuclear mutations, or plasmagenic mutations.
    • 2012 December 6, Henrique Guedes-Pinto, Norman Darvey, Valdemar P. Carnide, Triticale: Today and Tomorrow, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 75:
      The problem of triticale seed shrivelling was treated in another different way, by starting a process of plasmagenic mutagenesis that perhaps it is interesting to describe.

Etymology 2

plasma + -genic

Adjective

plasmagenic (not comparable)

  1. That forms plasma when heated or subjected to a strong electromagnetic field.
    • 2022, Madalina-Simona Baltatu, Dumitru-Doru Burduhos-Nergis, Diana Petronela Burduhos-Nergis, Petrica Vizureanu, Advanced Metallic Biomaterials, Materials Research Forum LLC, →ISBN, page 141:
      Among the plasmagenic gases, the most commonly used, can be listed: pure argon, nitrogen, hydrogen, helium or mixtures thereof. This plasma provides a very intense caloric energy and a very strong kinetic energy.

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