ABSTRACT
Plasmas are any statistical systems containing mobile charged particles. When such a system is condensed, interaction between the particles becomes very effective so that the system may undergo various changes in the internal states or the phase transitions. The thermodynamic properties and the rates of elementary processes, for instance, are influenced significantly by the state of such a plasma. The chapter details the physical properties of various condensed plasmas. Interiors of the main sequence stars such as the Sun are dense plasmas constituted mostly of hydrogen. Jupiter has been known to emit radiation energy in the infrared range at an effective temperature of approximately 130 K, approximately 2.7 times as intense as the total amount of radiation that it receives from the Sun. Helium burning is one of the major reaction processes in stellar evolution and in accreting white dwarfs and neutron stars in close binary systems.
