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The atmospheric pressure Tungsten Inert Gas (TIG) arc plasma in argon is studied combining results from emission spectroscopy temperature maps with composition data and transport parameters available from literature. Two arc currents are considered and maps are obtained for the Debye number, the number of particle in the Debye sphere, which shows values of the order of 10 or less in the core region of these arcs. This low number puts into serious question the plasma quasi-neutrality. It is striking that this circumstance occurs where Local Thermodynamical Equilibrium (LTE) is usually assumed in these discharges. It is shown that TIG arcs violate the quasi-neutrality requirements and, as such, these discharges are called 'plasma' quite improperly. Differently from previously published works, the starting point of the discussion is the experimental two-dimensional temperature maps

Quasi-neutrality and local thermodynamical equilibrium in atmospheric presure arc discharges