Pauli Exclusion Principle
• From quantum rules, electrons don’t like to be packed into a small
space, either in atoms or in ionized gas
• At normal ionized gas densities, electrons are so spread out
quantum rules don’t matter.
• As high enough ionized gas densities, quantum rules need to be
considered, just has they have been in atoms
• Think of each “atom sized” region of space having a set of energy
levels associated with it  (although it is really more complicated)