interplanetary gas

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1. a rarefied flow of gas and charged particles (plasma) that stream from the sun and form the solar wind (noun.object)

hypernym	:	plasma,
definition	:	(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 (noun.state)

part meronym	:	interplanetary medium,
definition	:	interplanetary space including forms of energy and gas and dust (noun.object)

substance meronym	:	solar wind,
definition	:	a stream of protons moving radially from the sun (noun.phenomenon)