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  • Thumbnail for Pinch (plasma physics)
    Pinch phenomena A pinch (or: Bennett pinch (after Willard Harrison Bennett), electromagnetic pinch, magnetic pinch, pinch effect, or plasma pinch.) is...
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    fusion power research, the Z-pinch (zeta pinch) is a type of plasma confinement system that uses an electric current in the plasma to generate a magnetic field...
    14 KB (1,740 words) - 09:19, 31 May 2024
  • the z-pinch concept. Both the DPF and pinch use large electrical currents run through a gas to cause it to ionize into a plasma and then pinch down on...
    35 KB (4,605 words) - 22:20, 25 July 2024
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    technological plasmas, where the ions are often near the ambient temperature while electrons reach thousands of kelvin. The opposite case is the z-pinch plasma where...
    62 KB (6,398 words) - 11:05, 12 August 2024
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    A reversed-field pinch (RFP) is a device used to produce and contain near-thermonuclear plasmas. It is a toroidal pinch that uses a unique magnetic field...
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    5 T and plasma current 0.25 MA, predecessor to the first tokamak (1955, USSR) Trisops – 2 facing theta-pinch guns FF-2B, Lawrenceville Plasma Physics...
    95 KB (3,147 words) - 12:49, 18 July 2024
  • unincorporated community Pinch, West Virginia, a census-designated place in Kanawha County Pinch (plasma physics), the compression of a plasma filament by magnetic...
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  • the arc. Plasma channels tend to self constrict (see plasma pinch) due to magnetic forces stemming from the current flowing through the plasma. On Earth...
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    (Laser-plasmas), Modulational instability Non-Abelian instability, Pair instability (in supernovae) Peratt instability (stacked toroids) Pinch instability...
    27 KB (3,165 words) - 12:24, 6 August 2024
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    Tokamak (redirect from Tokamak plasma)
    demonstrated that a stable plasma equilibrium requires magnetic field lines that wind around the torus in a helix. Devices like the z-pinch and stellarator had...
    112 KB (14,202 words) - 07:46, 9 August 2024
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    magnetohydrodynamic effect called pinch: the plasma channel's own magnetic fields create a force acting to compress the size of the plasma channel itself. Much of...
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  • researchers around the world to build pinch systems. In early experiments, pinch systems were found to be unstable and the plasma was quickly forced into the walls...
    22 KB (2,498 words) - 17:28, 5 July 2024
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    capsule. Z-pinch: A current travels in the z-direction through the plasma. The current generates a magnetic field that compresses the plasma. Pinches were the...
    197 KB (21,151 words) - 09:36, 16 August 2024
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    to work in plasmas driven by small transient electrical discharges and small pulsed power devices: z-pinch, capillary discharges and plasma focus. His...
    11 KB (1,131 words) - 17:07, 27 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Theta pinch
    Theta-pinch, or θ-pinch, is a type of fusion power reactor design. The name refers to the configuration of currents used to confine the plasma fuel in...
    37 KB (5,471 words) - 20:33, 29 October 2023
  • formula used in plasma physics to describe how an electrically conducting plasma filament is compressed by magnetic forces to form a "plasma pinch". Carlqvist...
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  • Thumbnail for ZETA (fusion reactor)
    experiment in the early history of fusion power research. Based on the pinch plasma confinement technique, and built at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment...
    76 KB (10,126 words) - 13:24, 18 August 2024
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    squeezes the plasma into a thin ring, thus "pinching" it. The combination of Joule heating by the current and adiabatic heating as it pinches raises the...
    38 KB (4,483 words) - 10:53, 7 June 2024
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    The cell membrane (also known as the plasma membrane or cytoplasmic membrane, and historically referred to as the plasmalemma) is a biological membrane...
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  • considering ways to solve problems involved in confining a hot plasma, and, unaware of the Z-pinch efforts, he created the stellarator. Spitzer applied to the...
    87 KB (9,584 words) - 02:17, 16 August 2024
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