Why can the volume of a sample of plasma change when the substance is moved from one container to another?

Plasma behaves much like a gas: its particles are spread out and can move freely, so it expands to fill the space available in a container. Moving it to a container with a different size can therefore change the plasma’s volume. Charged particles interact, but that is not the basic reason its volume depends on the container.

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