This is a list of plasma physics topics.
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Ablation
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Abradable coating
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Abraham–Lorentz force
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Absorption band
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Accretion disk
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Active galactic nucleus
An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a compact region at the center of a galaxy that emits a significant amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, with characteristics indicating that this luminosity is not produced by the stars. Such e ...
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Adiabatic invariant
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ADITYA (tokamak)
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Aeronomy
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Afterglow plasma
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Airglow
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Air plasma,
Corona treatment, Atmospheric-pressure plasma treatment
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Ayaks, Novel "Magneto-plasmo-chemical engine"
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Alcator C-Mod
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Alfvén wave
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Ambipolar diffusion
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Aneutronic fusion
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Anisothermal plasma
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Anisotropy
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Antiproton Decelerator
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Appleton-Hartree equation
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Arcing horns
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Arc lamp
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Arc suppression
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ASDEX Upgrade, Axially Symmetric Divertor EXperiment
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Astron (fusion reactor)
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Astronomy
Astronomy is a natural science that studies celestial objects and the phenomena that occur in the cosmos. It uses mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to explain their origin and their overall evolution. Objects of interest includ ...
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Astrophysical plasma
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Astrophysical X-ray source
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Atmospheric dynamo
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Atmospheric escape
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Atmospheric pressure discharge
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Atmospheric-pressure plasma
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Atom
Atoms are the basic particles of the chemical elements. An atom consists of a atomic nucleus, nucleus of protons and generally neutrons, surrounded by an electromagnetically bound swarm of electrons. The chemical elements are distinguished fr ...
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Atomic emission spectroscopy
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Atomic physics
Atomic physics is the field of physics that studies atoms as an isolated system of electrons and an atomic nucleus. Atomic physics typically refers to the study of atomic structure and the interaction between atoms. It is primarily concerned wit ...
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Atomic-terrace low-angle shadowing
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Auger electron spectroscopy
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Aurora (astronomy)
B
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Babcock Model
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Ball lightning
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Ball-pen probe
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Ballooning instability
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Baryon acoustic oscillations
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Beam-powered propulsion
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Beta (plasma physics)
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Birkeland current
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Blacklight Power
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Blazar
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Bohm diffusion
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Bohr–van Leeuwen theorem
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Boltzmann relation
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Bow shock
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Bremsstrahlung
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Bussard ramjet
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Capacitively coupled plasma
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Carbon nanotube metal matrix composites
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Cassini–Huygens, Cassini Plasma Spectrometer
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Cathode ray
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Cathodic arc deposition
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Ceramic discharge metal-halide lamp
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Charge carrier
In solid state physics, a charge carrier is a particle or quasiparticle that is free to move, carrying an electric charge, especially the particles that carry electric charges in electrical conductors. Examples are electrons, ions and holes. ...
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Charged-device model
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Charged particle
In physics, a charged particle is a particle with an electric charge. For example, some elementary particles, like the electron or quarks are charged. Some composite particles like protons are charged particles. An ion, such as a molecule or atom ...
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Chemical plasma
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Chemical vapor deposition
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Chemical vapor deposition of diamond
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Chirikov criterion
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Chirped pulse amplification
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Chromatography detector
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Chromo–Weibel instability
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Classical-map hypernetted-chain method
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Cnoidal wave
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Colored-particle-in-cell
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Coilgun
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Cold plasma,
Ozone generator
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Collisionality
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Colored-particle-in-cell
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Columbia Non-neutral Torus
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Comet tail
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Compact toroid
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Compressibility
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Compton–Getting effect
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Contact lithography
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Coupling (physics)
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Convection cell
In fluid dynamics, a convection cell is the phenomenon that occurs when density differences exist within a body of liquid or gas. These density differences result in rising and/or falling convection currents, which are the key characteristics o ...
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Cooling flow
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Corona
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Corona discharge
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Corona ring
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Coronal loop
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Coronal radiative losses
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Coronal seismology
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Cosmic microwave background radiation
The cosmic microwave background (CMB, CMBR), or relic radiation, is microwave radiation that fills all space in the observable universe. With a standard optical telescope, the background space between stars and galaxies is almost completely dar ...
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Cotton–Mouton effect
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Coulomb collision
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Coulomb explosion
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Columbia Non-neutral Torus
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Crackle tube
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Critical ionization velocity
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Crookes tube
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Current sheet
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Cutoff frequency
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Cyclotron radiation
D
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Debye length
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Debye sheath
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Deep reactive-ion etching
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Degenerate matter
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Degree of ionization
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DEMO, DEMOnstration Power Plant
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Dense plasma focus
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Dielectric barrier discharge
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Diffusion damping
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DIII-D (tokamak)
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Dimensional analysis
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Diocotron instability
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Direct-current discharge
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Directed-energy weapon
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Direct bonding
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distribution function
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Divertor
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Doppler broadening
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Doppler effect
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Double layer (plasma)
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Dual segmented Langmuir probe, Non-Maxwellian Features in Ionospheric Plasma
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Duoplasmatron
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Dusty plasma
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Dynamo theory
In physics, the dynamo theory proposes a mechanism by which a celestial body such as Earth or a star generates a magnetic field. The dynamo theory describes the process through which a rotating, convection, convecting, and electrically conductin ...
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Earth's magnetic field
Earth's magnetic field, also known as the geomagnetic field, is the magnetic field that extends from structure of Earth, Earth's interior out into space, where it interacts with the solar wind, a stream of charged particles emanating from ...
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Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST)
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Ectons
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Eddington luminosity
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Edge-localized mode
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Ekman number
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Elastic collision
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Electrical breakdown
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Electrical conductor
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Electrical mobility
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Electrical resistance and conductance
The electrical resistance of an object is a measure of its opposition to the flow of electric current. Its Multiplicative inverse, reciprocal quantity is , measuring the ease with which an electric current passes. Electrical resistance share ...
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Electrical resistivity and conductivity
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Electrical treeing
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Electrically powered spacecraft propulsion
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Electric-field screening
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Electric arc
An electric arc (or arc discharge) is an electrical breakdown of a gas that produces a prolonged electrical discharge. The electric current, current through a normally Electrical conductance, nonconductive medium such as air produces a plasma ( ...
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Electric arc furnace, Plasma arc furnace
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Electric current
An electric current is a flow of charged particles, such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space. It is defined as the net rate of flow of electric charge through a surface. The moving particles are called charge c ...
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Electric discharge
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Electric spark
An electric spark is an abrupt electrical discharge that occurs when a sufficiently high electric field creates an Ionization, ionized, Electric current, electrically conductive channel through a normally-insulating medium, often air or other ga ...
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Electric Tokamak
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Electrothermal-chemical technology, uses plasma cartridge, Triple coaxial plasma igniter
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Electrodeless plasma excitation
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Electrodeless plasma thruster
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Electrodynamic tether
Electrodynamic tethers (EDTs) are long conducting wires, such as one deployed from a tether satellite, which can operate on electromagnetism, electromagnetic principles as electrical generator, generators, by converting their kinetic energy to ele ...
, Flowing Plasma Effect
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Electrohydrodynamic thruster
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Electrolaser,
Laser-Induced Plasma Channel
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Electromagnetic electron wave
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Electromagnetic field
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Electromagnetic pulse
An electromagnetic pulse (EMP), also referred to as a transient electromagnetic disturbance (TED), is a brief burst of electromagnetic energy. The origin of an EMP can be natural or artificial, and can occur as an electromagnetic field, as an ...
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Electromagnetic spectrum
The electromagnetic spectrum is the full range of electromagnetic radiation, organized by frequency or wavelength. The spectrum is divided into separate bands, with different names for the electromagnetic waves within each band. From low to high ...
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Electron-cloud effect
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Electron
The electron (, or in nuclear reactions) is a subatomic particle with a negative one elementary charge, elementary electric charge. It is a fundamental particle that comprises the ordinary matter that makes up the universe, along with up qua ...
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Electron avalanche
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Electron beam ion trap
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Electron cyclotron resonance
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Electron density
Electron density or electronic density is the measure of the probability of an electron being present at an infinitesimal element of space surrounding any given point. It is a scalar quantity depending upon three spatial variables and is typical ...
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Electron energy loss spectroscopy
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Electron gun
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Electron microprobe
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Electron spiral toroid
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Electron temperature
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Electronvolt
In physics, an electronvolt (symbol eV), also written electron-volt and electron volt, is the measure of an amount of kinetic energy gained by a single electron accelerating through an Voltage, electric potential difference of one volt in vacuum ...
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Electron wake
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Electrostatic discharge
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) is a sudden and momentary flow of electric current between two differently-charged objects when brought close together or when the dielectric between them breaks down, often creating a visible electric spark, spark as ...
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Electrostatic ion cyclotron wave
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Electrostatic ion thruster
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Electrosurgery
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Electrothermal instability
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Electroweak epoch
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Elemental analysis
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Elliptic flow
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Emission spectrum
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Energetic neutral atom
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Energy density
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Energy filtered transmission electron microscopy
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Evanescent wave
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Evershed effect
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Excimer lamp
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Excimer laser
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Extraordinary optical transmission
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Extreme ultraviolet
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Extreme ultraviolet lithography
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Failure analysis
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FalconSAT
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Faraday cup
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Faraday effect, Faraday rotation in the ionosphere
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Far-infrared laser
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Farley-Buneman instability
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Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer
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Ferritic nitrocarburizing, Plasma-assisted ferritic nitrocarburizing, plasma ion nitriding
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Ferrofluid
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Field line
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Field-reversed configuration
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Filament propagation
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Finite-difference time-domain method
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Fire
Fire is the rapid oxidation of a fuel in the exothermic chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction Product (chemistry), products.
Flames, the most visible portion of the fire, are produced in the combustion re ...
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Fisher's equation
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Fission fragment reactor
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Fission-fragment rocket, Dusty Plasma Based Fission Fragment Nuclear Reactor
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Flame plasma
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Flare spray
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Flashtube
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Flatness problem
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Flowing-afterglow mass spectrometry
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Fluid dynamics
In physics, physical chemistry and engineering, fluid dynamics is a subdiscipline of fluid mechanics that describes the flow of fluids – liquids and gases. It has several subdisciplines, including (the study of air and other gases in motion ...
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Fluorescent lamp
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Forbidden mechanism
In spectroscopy, a forbidden mechanism (forbidden transition or forbidden line) is a spectral line associated with absorption or emission of photons by atomic nuclei, atoms, or molecules which undergo a transition that is not allowed by a particu ...
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Force-free magnetic field
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Free-electron laser
A free-electron laser (FEL) is a fourth generation light source producing extremely brilliant and short pulses of radiation. An FEL functions much as a laser but employs relativistic electrons as a active laser medium, gain medium instead of using ...
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Free electron model
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F region,
Appleton layer
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Frequency classification of plasmas
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Fusion energy gain factor
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Fusion power
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fusion torch
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fusor
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Galactic corona
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Galactic halo
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Gas
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Gas-filled tube
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Gas core reactor rocket
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Gas cracker, plasma cracking
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Gas Electron Multiplier
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Gaseous fission reactor
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Gaseous ionisation detectors
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Gas focusing
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Gasification, Plasma gasifier
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Geissler tube
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General Fusion
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Geomagnetic storm
A geomagnetic storm, also known as a magnetic storm, is a temporary disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere that is driven by interactions between the magnetosphere and large-scale transient Plasma (physics), plasma and magnetic field structur ...
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Geothermal Anywhere
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Glasser effect
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Glass frit bonding
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Glow discharge
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Glow-discharge optical emission spectroscopy (GDOES)
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Grad–Shafranov equation
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Granule (solar physics)
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Great Rift (astronomy)
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GreenSun Energy
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Guiding center
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Gunn–Peterson trough
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GYRO
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Gyrokinetic ElectroMagnetic
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Gyrokinetics
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Gyroradius
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Gyrotron
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Hadronization
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Hagedorn temperature, Transition to Quark-Gluon Plasma
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Hall effect
The Hall effect is the production of a voltage, potential difference (the Hall voltage) across an electrical conductor that is wikt:transverse, transverse to an electric current in the conductor and to an applied magnetic field wikt:perpendicul ...
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Hall-effect thruster
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Hasegawa–Mima equation
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Heat shield
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Heat torch
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Helically Symmetric Experiment
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Helicon double-layer thruster
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Helicon (physics)
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Heliosphere
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Heliospheric current sheet
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Helium
Helium (from ) is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol He and atomic number 2. It is a colorless, odorless, non-toxic, inert gas, inert, monatomic gas and the first in the noble gas group in the periodic table. Its boiling point is ...
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Helium line ratio
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Helmet streamer
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Hessdalen light
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High beta fusion reactor
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High-energy nuclear physics
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High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program
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High harmonic generation
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High-intensity discharge lamp
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High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering
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High voltage
High voltage electricity refers to electrical potential large enough to cause injury or damage. In certain industries, ''high voltage'' refers to voltage above a certain threshold. Equipment and conductors that carry high voltage warrant sp ...
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HiPER,
High-Power laser Energy Research facility
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Hiss (electromagnetic), Plasmaspheric hiss
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Hollow cathode effect
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Hollow-cathode lamp
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Holtsmark distribution
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Homopolar generator
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Horizon problem
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Hydrogen
Hydrogen is a chemical element; it has chemical symbol, symbol H and atomic number 1. It is the lightest and abundance of the chemical elements, most abundant chemical element in the universe, constituting about 75% of all baryon, normal matter ...
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Hydrogen sensor
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Hypernova
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Hypersonic speed
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Hypersonic wind tunnel
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Hypervelocity
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Hypertherm
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IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society
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IGNITOR
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IMAGE
An image or picture is a visual representation. An image can be Two-dimensional space, two-dimensional, such as a drawing, painting, or photograph, or Three-dimensional space, three-dimensional, such as a carving or sculpture. Images may be di ...
, Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration,
Radio Plasma Imager
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Impalefection
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Impulse generator
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Incoherent scatter
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Induction plasma technology
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Inductively coupled plasma
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Inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy
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Inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
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Inelastic mean free path
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inertial confinement fusion
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Inertial electrostatic confinement
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Inertial fusion power plant
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Instability
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Insulated-gate bipolar transistor
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Insulator (electrical)
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Interbol
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Intergalactic medium
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International Reference Ionosphere
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Interplanetary magnetic field
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Interplanetary medium
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Interplanetary scintillation
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Interstellar medium
* Interstellar
nebula
A nebula (; or nebulas) is a distinct luminescent part of interstellar medium, which can consist of ionized, neutral, or molecular hydrogen and also cosmic dust. Nebulae are often star-forming regions, such as in the Pillars of Creation in ...
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Interstellar travel
Interstellar travel is the hypothetical travel of spacecraft between star systems. Due to the vast distances between the Solar System and nearby stars, interstellar travel is not practicable with current propulsion technologies.
To travel between ...
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Intracluster medium
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Io-
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the List of Solar System objects by size, largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a Jupiter mass, mass more than 2.5 times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined a ...
flux tube
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Ion
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Ionized-air glow
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Ion acoustic wave
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Ion beam
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Ion-beam shepherd
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Ion cyclotron resonance
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Ion gun
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Ion laser
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Ion optics
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Ion plating
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Ion source
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Ion wind
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Ionosphere
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Ionospheric heater
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Ionospheric propagation
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Isotope-ratio mass spectrometry, Multiple collector – inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry (MC-ICP-MS)
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ITER,
International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
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Jellium,
uniform electron gas,
homogeneous electron gas
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Jet (particle physics)
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Jet quenching
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Joint European Torus
K
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Kennelly–Heaviside layer,
E region
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Kinetics (physics)
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Kink instability
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Kirchhoff's circuit laws
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Kite applications, plasma kite
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Kosterlitz–Thouless transition
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KSTAR, Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research
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Kværner-process, Plasma burner, Plasma variation
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Lagrange point colonization
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Landau damping
In physics, Landau damping, named after its discoverer,Landau, L. "On the vibration of the electronic plasma". ''JETP'' 16 (1946), 574. English translation in ''J. Phys. (USSR)'' 10 (1946), 25. Reproduced in Collected papers of L.D. Landau, edited ...
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Langmuir probe
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Large Hadron Collider
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Large Helical Device
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Large Plasma Device
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Laser-hybrid welding
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Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy,
Laser Induced Plasma Spectroscopy
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Laser-induced fluorescence
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Laser ablation
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Laser ablation synthesis in solution
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Laser plasma acceleration
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Lawson criterion
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Lerche–Newberger sum rule
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Le Sage's theory of gravitation
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Levitated dipole
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LIDAR
Lidar (, also LIDAR, an acronym of "light detection and ranging" or "laser imaging, detection, and ranging") is a method for determining ranging, ranges by targeting an object or a surface with a laser and measuring the time for the reflected li ...
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Lightcraft
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Lightning
Lightning is a natural phenomenon consisting of electrostatic discharges occurring through the atmosphere between two electrically charged regions. One or both regions are within the atmosphere, with the second region sometimes occurring on ...
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LINUS (Fusion Experiment)
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List of hydrodynamic instabilities
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List of plasma physicists
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LOFAR,
Low Frequency Array
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Longitudinal wave
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Lorentz force
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Low-energy electron diffraction
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Lower hybrid oscillation
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Low-pressure discharge
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Luminescent solar concentrator
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Lundquist number
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Luttinger liquid
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Madison Symmetric Torus
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MagBeam, also called
Magnetized beamed plasma propulsion, plasma wind
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Magnetic bottle
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Magnetic braking
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Magnetic cloud
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Magnetic confinement fusion
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Magnetic diffusivity
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Magnetic field
A magnetic field (sometimes called B-field) is a physical field that describes the magnetic influence on moving electric charges, electric currents, and magnetic materials. A moving charge in a magnetic field experiences a force perpendicular ...
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Magnetic field oscillating amplified thruster, Plasma Engine
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Magnetic helicity
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Magnetic mirror
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Magnetic Prandtl number
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Magnetic pressure
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Magnetic proton recoil neutron spectrometer
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Magnetic radiation reaction force
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Magnetic reconnection
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Magnetic Reynolds number
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Magnetic sail,
Mini-magnetospheric plasma propulsion
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Magnetic tail
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Magnetic tension force
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Magnetic weapon
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Magnetization reversal by circularly polarized light
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Magnetized target fusion
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Magnetogravity wave
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Magnetohydrodynamic drive
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MHD generator
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Magnetohydrodynamics
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Magnetohydrodynamic turbulence
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Magneto-optical trap
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Magnetopause
The magnetopause is the abrupt boundary between a magnetosphere and the surrounding Plasma (physics), plasma. For planetary science, the magnetopause is the boundary between the planet's magnetic field and the solar wind. The location of the ma ...
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Magnetoplasmadynamic thruster
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Magnetosheath
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Magnetosonic wave
In physics, magnetosonic waves, also known as magnetoacoustic waves, are low-frequency Compression (physics), compressive waves driven by mutual interaction between an electrically conducting fluid and a magnetic field. They are associated with Co ...
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magnetoacoustic wave
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Magnetosphere
In astronomy and planetary science, a magnetosphere is a region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are affected by that object's magnetic field. It is created by a celestial body with an active interior Dynamo ...
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Magnetosphere chronology
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Magnetosphere of Saturn, Sources and transport of plasma
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Magnetosphere particle motion
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Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission
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Magnetotellurics
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MAGPIE, stands for Mega Ampere Generator for Plasma Implosion Experiments,
Marx generator
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MARAUDER, acronym of Magnetically Accelerated Ring to Achieve Ultra-high Directed Energy and Radiation
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Marchywka Effect
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Marfa lights
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Many-body problem
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Mars Express
''Mars Express'' is a space exploration mission by the European Space Agency, European Space Agency (ESA) exploring the planet Mars and its moons since 2003, and the first planetary mission attempted by ESA.
''Mars Express'' consisted of two ...
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Mass driver
A mass driver or electromagnetic catapult is a proposed method of non-rocket spacelaunch which would use a linear motor to Acceleration, accelerate and catapult Payload (air and space craft), payloads up to high speeds. Existing and proposed mass ...
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Mass spectrometry
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Material point method
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Maxwell–Boltzmann distribution
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Maxwell's equations
Maxwell's equations, or Maxwell–Heaviside equations, are a set of coupled partial differential equations that, together with the Lorentz force law, form the foundation of classical electromagnetism, classical optics, Electrical network, electr ...
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Mechanically Stimulated Gas Emission
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Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak
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Metallic bond
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Metallizing
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Metamaterial antenna
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Microplasma
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Microstructured optical arrays
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Microturbulence
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Microwave digestion
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Microwave discharge
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Microwave plasma-assisted CVD
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Microwave plasma
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Migma
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MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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Moreton wave
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Multipactor effect
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Nanoflares
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Nanoparticle
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Nanoscale plasmonic motor
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Nanoshell
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National Compact Stellarator Experiment
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National Spherical Torus Experiment
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Navier–Stokes equations
The Navier–Stokes equations ( ) are partial differential equations which describe the motion of viscous fluid substances. They were named after French engineer and physicist Claude-Louis Navier and the Irish physicist and mathematician Georg ...
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Negative index metamaterials
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Negative resistance
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Negative temperature
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Neon lighting
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Neon sign
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Neutral beam injection
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Neutron generator
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Neutron source
A neutron source is any device that emits neutrons, irrespective of the mechanism used to produce the neutrons. Neutron sources are used in physics, engineering, medicine, nuclear weapons, petroleum exploration, biology, chemistry, and nuclear p ...
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Neutron star spin-up
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New Horizons
''New Horizons'' is an Interplanetary spaceflight, interplanetary space probe launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and the Southwest Research Institut ...
, Plasma and high energy particle spectrometer suite (PAM)
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Nitrogen–phosphorus detector
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Nonequilibrium Gas and Plasma Dynamics Laboratory
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Non-line-of-sight propagation
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Non-thermal microwave effect
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Nonthermal plasma,
Cold plasma
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Nuclear fusion
Nuclear fusion is a nuclear reaction, reaction in which two or more atomic nuclei combine to form a larger nuclei, nuclei/neutrons, neutron by-products. The difference in mass between the reactants and products is manifested as either the rele ...
, Bremsstrahlung losses in quasineutral, isotropic plasmas, deuterium plasma
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Nuclear pulse propulsion
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Nuclear pumped laser
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Numerical diffusion
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Numerical resistivity
O
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Ohmic contact
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Onset of deconfinement
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Optode
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Optoelectric nuclear battery
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Orbitrap
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Outer space
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Particle-in-cell
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Particle accelerator
A particle accelerator is a machine that uses electromagnetic fields to propel electric charge, charged particles to very high speeds and energies to contain them in well-defined particle beam, beams. Small accelerators are used for fundamental ...
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Paschen's law
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Peek's law
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Pegasus Toroidal Experiment
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Penning mixture
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Penrose criterion
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Perhapsatron
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Phased plasma gun
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Photon
A photon () is an elementary particle that is a quantum of the electromagnetic field, including electromagnetic radiation such as light and radio waves, and the force carrier for the electromagnetic force. Photons are massless particles that can ...
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Photonic metamaterial
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Photonics
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Physical cosmology
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Physical vapor deposition
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Piezoelectric direct discharge plasma
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Pinch (plasma physics)
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Planetary nebula
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Planetary nebula luminosity function
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Plasma-desorption mass spectrometry
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Plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition
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Plasma-immersion ion implantation
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Plasma-powered cannon
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Plasma (physics)
Plasma () is a state of matter characterized by the presence of a significant portion of charged particles in any combination of ions or electrons. It is the most abundant form of ordinary matter in the universe, mostly in stars (including the ...
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Plasma acceleration
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Plasma Acoustic Shield System
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Plasma activated bonding
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Plasma activation
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Plasma actuator
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Plasma antenna
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Plasma arc waste disposal,
Incineration
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Plasma arc welding
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Plasma channel
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Plasma chemistry
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Plasma cleaning
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Plasma Contactor
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Plasma containment
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Plasma conversion
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Plasma cosmology, ambiplasma
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Plasma cutting, Plasma gouging
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Plasma deep drilling technology
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Plasma diagnostics, Self Excited Electron Plasma Resonance Spectroscopy (SEERS)
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Plasma display
A plasma display panel is a type of flat-panel display that uses small cells containing Plasma (physics), plasma: Ionization, ionized gas that responds to electric fields. Plasma televisions were the first large (over diagonal) flat-panel displ ...
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Plasma effect
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Plasma electrolytic oxidation
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Plasma etcher
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Plasma etching
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Plasma frequency
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Plasma functionalization
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Plasma gasification commercialization
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Plasma globe
A plasma ball, plasma globe, or plasma lamp is a clear glass container filled with noble gases, usually a mixture of neon, krypton, and xenon, that has a high-voltage electrode in the center of the container. When voltage is applied, a plasma (p ...
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Plasma lamp
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Plasma medicine
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Plasma modeling
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Plasma nitriding
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Plasma oscillation
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Plasma parameter
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Plasma parameters
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Plasma pencil
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Plasma polymerization
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Plasma processing
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Plasma propulsion engine
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Plasma Pyrolysis Waste Treatment and Disposal
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Plasma receiver
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Plasma scaling
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Plasma shaping
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Plasma sheet
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Plasma shield,
Plasma window
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Plasma sound source
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Plasma source
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Plasma speaker
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Plasma spray
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Plasma spraying,
Thermal spraying,
Surface finishing
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Plasma stability
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Plasma stealth
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Plasma torch
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Plasma transferred wire arc thermal spraying
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Plasma valve
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Plasma weapon
A directed-energy weapon (DEW) is a ranged weapon that damages its target with highly focused energy without a solid projectile, including lasers, microwaves, particle beams, and sound beams. Potential applications of this technology include w ...
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Plasma weapon (fiction)
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Plasma window,
Force field
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Plasmadynamics and Electric Propulsion Laboratory
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Plasmaphone
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Plasmapper
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Plasmaron
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Plasmasphere
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Plasmoid
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Plasmon
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Plasmonic cover,
Theories of cloaking
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Plasmonic laser,
Nanolaser
A nanolaser is a laser that has Nanoscopic scale, nanoscale dimensions and it refers to a micro-/nano- device which can emit light with light or electric excitation of nanowires or other nanomaterials that serve as resonators. A standard feature of ...
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Plasmonic metamaterials
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Plasmonic nanolithography
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Plasmonic Nanoparticles
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Plasmonic solar cell
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Polarization density
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Polarization ripples
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Polar (satellite)
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Polymeric surfaces
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Polywell
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Ponderomotive force
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Princeton field-reversed configuration experiment
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Propulsive Fluid Accumulator, nuclear-powered magnetohydrodynamic electromagnetic plasma thruster
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Proton beam
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Pseudospark switch
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Pulsed Energy Projectile
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Pulsed laser deposition, Dynamic of the plasma
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Pulsed plasma thruster, also Plasma Jet Engines
Q
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Q-machine
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QCD matter
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Quadrupole ion trap
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Quantum cascade laser
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Quark–gluon plasma
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Quarkonium
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Quasar
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Quasiparticle
R
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Radiation
In physics, radiation is the emission or transmission of energy in the form of waves or particles through space or a material medium. This includes:
* ''electromagnetic radiation'' consisting of photons, such as radio waves, microwaves, infr ...
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Radiation damage
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Radical polymerization
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Radioactive waste
Radioactive waste is a type of hazardous waste that contains radioactive material. It is a result of many activities, including nuclear medicine, nuclear research, nuclear power generation, nuclear decommissioning, rare-earth mining, and nuclear ...
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Radio atmospheric
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Radio galaxy
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Radio halo
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Radio relics
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Railgun
A railgun or rail gun, sometimes referred to as a rail cannon, is a linear motor device, typically designed as a ranged weapon, that uses Electromagnet, electromagnetic force to launch high-velocity Projectile, projectiles. The projectile norma ...
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Radio Aurora Explorer (RAX)
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Random phase approximation
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Ray tracing (physics)
In physics, ray tracing is a method for calculating the path of waves or Subatomic particle, particles through a system with regions of varying propagation velocity, absorption characteristics, and reflecting surfaces. Under these circumstances, ...
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Reactive-ion etching
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Reaction engine
A reaction engine is an engine, engine or motor that produces thrust by expelling reaction mass (reaction propulsion), in accordance with Newton's third law of motion. This law of motion is commonly paraphrased as: "For every action force there ...
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Rectifier
A rectifier is an electrical device that converts alternating current (AC), which periodically reverses direction, to direct current (DC), which flows in only one direction.
The process is known as ''rectification'', since it "straightens" t ...
, Plasma type
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Refractive index
In optics, the refractive index (or refraction index) of an optical medium is the ratio of the apparent speed of light in the air or vacuum to the speed in the medium. The refractive index determines how much the path of light is bent, or refrac ...
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Reionization
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Relativistic beaming
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Relativistic jet
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Relativistic particle
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Relativistic plasma
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Relativistic similarity parameter
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Remote plasma-enhanced CVD
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Resistive ballooning mode
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Resolved sideband cooling
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Resonant magnetic perturbations
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Resonator mode
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Reversed field pinch
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Richtmyer–Meshkov instability
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Riggatron
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Ring current
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Rocket engine nozzle
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Runaway breakdown
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Rydberg atom
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Rydberg matter
S
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Safety factor (plasma physics)
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Saha ionization equation
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Sceptre (fusion reactor)
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Scramjet
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Screened Poisson equation
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SEAgel,
Safe Emulsion Agar gel
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Selected-ion flow-tube mass spectrometry
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Self-focusing
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Sensitive high-resolution ion microprobe
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Shielding gas
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Shiva laser
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Shiva Star
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Shock diamond
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Shocks and discontinuities (magnetohydrodynamics)
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Shock wave
In physics, a shock wave (also spelled shockwave), or shock, is a type of propagating disturbance that moves faster than the local speed of sound in the medium. Like an ordinary wave, a shock wave carries energy and can propagate through a me ...
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Oblique shock
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Skin effect
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Skip zone
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Sky brightness
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Skywave
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Slapper detonator
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Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak
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Solar cycle
The Solar cycle, also known as the solar magnetic activity cycle, sunspot cycle, or Schwabe cycle, is a periodic 11-year change in the Sun's activity measured in terms of Modern Maximum, variations in the number of observed sunspots on the Sun ...
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Cosmic ray
Cosmic rays or astroparticles are high-energy particles or clusters of particles (primarily represented by protons or atomic nuclei) that move through space at nearly the speed of light. They originate from the Sun, from outside of the ...
flux
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Solar flare
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Solar Orbiter, Radio and Plasma Wave analyser
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Solar prominence
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Solar transition region
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Solar wind
The solar wind is a stream of charged particles released from the Sun's outermost atmospheric layer, the Stellar corona, corona. This Plasma (physics), plasma mostly consists of electrons, protons and alpha particles with kinetic energy betwee ...
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Solar wind turbulence
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Solenoid
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Solution precursor plasma spray, Plasma plume
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Sonoluminescence
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South Atlantic Anomaly
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Southern Hemisphere Auroral Radar Experiment
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Space physics
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Spacequake
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Space Shuttle
The Space Shuttle is a retired, partially reusable launch system, reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated from 1981 to 2011 by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as part of the Space Shuttle program. ...
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Space Shuttle thermal protection system
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Space tether missions
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Spark-gap transmitter
A spark-gap transmitter is an obsolete type of transmitter, radio transmitter which generates radio waves by means of an electric spark."Radio Transmitters, Early" in Spark-gap transmitters were the first type of radio transmitter, and were the m ...
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Spark plasma sintering
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Spaser
A spaser or plasmonic laser is a type of laser which aims to confine light at a subwavelength scale far below John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Rayleigh's Diffraction limited beam, diffraction limit of light, by storing some of the light ene ...
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Spectral imaging
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Spectral line
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Spherical tokamak
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Spheromak
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Spinplasmonics
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Spontaneous emission
Spontaneous emission is the process in which a Quantum mechanics, quantum mechanical system (such as a molecule, an atom or a subatomic particle) transits from an excited state, excited energy state to a lower energy state (e.g., its ground state ...
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Spreeta
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Sprite (lightning)
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Sputter cleaning
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Sputter deposition
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Sputtering
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SSIES, Special Sensors-Ions, Electrons, and Scintillation thermal plasma analysis package
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SST-1 (tokamak), Steady State Tokamak
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Star
A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by Self-gravitation, self-gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night sk ...
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Star lifting
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State of matter
In physics, a state of matter is one of the distinct forms in which matter can exist. Four states of matter are observable in everyday life: solid, liquid, gas, and Plasma (physics), plasma.
Different states are distinguished by the ways the ...
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Static forces and virtual-particle exchange
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Stellarator
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Stellar-wind bubble
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St. Elmo's fire
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Strahl (astronomy)
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Strangeness production
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Strontium vapor laser
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Structure formation
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Sudden ionospheric disturbance
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Sun
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SUNIST, Sino-UNIted Spherical Tokamak, Alfven wave current drive experiments in spherical tokamak plasmas
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Superlens, Plasmon-assisted microscopy
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Supernova
A supernova (: supernovae or supernovas) is a powerful and luminous explosion of a star. A supernova occurs during the last stellar evolution, evolutionary stages of a massive star, or when a white dwarf is triggered into runaway nuclear fusion ...
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Supernova remnants
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Sura Ionospheric Heating Facility
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Surface-wave-sustained mode
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Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
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Surface plasmon
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Surface plasmon polaritons
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Surface plasmon resonance
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Suspension plasma spray
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Synchrotron light source
T
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Taylor state
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Teller–Ulam design, Foam plasma pressure
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Tesla coil
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Test particle, in plasma physics or electrodynamics
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Thermal barrier coating
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Thermalisation
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Thermionic converter
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Thermodynamic temperature
Thermodynamic temperature, also known as absolute temperature, is a physical quantity which measures temperature starting from absolute zero, the point at which particles have minimal thermal motion.
Thermodynamic temperature is typically expres ...
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Thomson scattering
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Thunder
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Tokamak
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Tokamak à configuration variable
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Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor
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Toroidal ring model
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Townsend discharge
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Townsend (unit)
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Transformation optics
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Transmission medium
* Trisops, Force Free Plasma Vortices
* Tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy
* Tweeter, Plasma or Ion tweeter
* Two-dimensional guiding-center plasma
* Two-dimensional point vortex gas
* Two-stream instability
U
* U-HID, Ultra High Intensity Discharge
* UMIST linear system
* Undulator
* Upper hybrid oscillation
* Upper-atmospheric lightning
V
* Vacuum arc, thermionic vacuum arc generates a pure metal and ceramic vapour plasma
* Van Allen radiation belt
* Vapor–liquid–solid method
* Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket
* Vector inversion generator
* Versatile Toroidal Facility
* Violet wand
* Virial theorem
* Vlasov equation
* Volatilisation
* VORPAL, Versatile Object-oriented Relativistic Plasma Analysis with Lasers
* Voyager program, Plasma Wave Subsystem
W
* Warm dense matter
* Wave equation
* Waves in plasmas
* Wave turbulence
* Weibel instability
* Wendelstein 7-X
* Wiggler (synchrotron)
* WIND (spacecraft)
* Wingless Electromagnetic Air Vehicle
* Wireless energy transfer
* Wouthuysen-Field coupling
X
* XANES, X-ray Absorption Near Edge Structure
* Xenon arc lamp
* X-ray transient
* X-ray astronomy
* X-shaped radio galaxy
Y
Z
* Zakharov system
* Zero-point energy
* ZETA (fusion reactor)
* Zonal and poloidal
* Zonal flow (plasma)
* Z Pulsed Power Facility
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