Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Another note on plasmas

One final thing I want to mention about plasmas: A plasma is generally defined by its "Debye Length", the length which the plasma "Screens out" electric fields. A wikipedia link on this is HERE.

To be considered a plasma, the plasma must be dense enough that one ion will affect many nearby ions, which creates a collective effect in the movement of the plasmas.

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