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Essential Guide to the EU – Chapter 6
Currents, Filaments and Pinches

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Bob Johnson - Jim Johnson

6.1  Thermal Motion and Current It is important to distinguish between random thermal motion and uniform linear motion in a plasma. The latter is an electric current which flows due to the presence of an electric field. The random thermal … Continue reading →

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Damp Stars

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Stephen Smith

  Sep 22, 2011 Some stars are said to be surrounded by haloes of hot water mixed with carbon dust. According to a recent European Space Agency (ESA) press release, the Herschel infrared space observatory discovered a cloud of hot … Continue reading →

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