is another important aspect of Reversed Field Pinch research. Dominique Franck Escande RFX: Reversed-Field eXperiment Measurement of superthermal electron...
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The Reversed-Field eXperiment (RFX) is the largest reversed field pinch device presently in operation, situated in Padua, Italy. It was constructed from...
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United Kingdom) ETA-BETA II in Padua, Italy (1979–1989) RFX (Reversed-Field eXperiment), Consorzio RFX, Padova, Italy MST (Madison Symmetric Torus),...
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The Princeton Field Reversed Configuration (PFRC) is a series of experiments in plasma physics, an experimental program to evaluate a configuration for...
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laboratories in the late 1950s during theta pinch experiments with a reversed background magnetic field. The original idea was attributed to the Greek scientist...
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Madison Symmetric Torus at the University of Wisconsin, Madison Reversed-Field eXperiment in Italy. Dense plasma focus in New Jersey University of Nevada...
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it records the direction of the Earth's field. When the Earth's field reverses, new basalt records the reversed direction. The result is a series of stripes...
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Compact Toroidal Hybrid (section Ongoing experiments)
Helically Symmetric eXperiment (HSX), Large Helical Device (LHD), and Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) stellarators, and the Reversed-Field eXperiment (RFX) and Madison...
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The Helically Symmetric Experiment (HSX, stylized as Helically Symmetric eXperiment), is an experimental plasma confinement device at the University of...
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the World Reversed: Essays, published in English in 1979 by Cambridge University Press, established him as a significant figure in the field of ethnology...
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Fusion power (section Milestones in fusion experiments)
are the tokamak, the stellarator, and the reversed field pinch. Compact toroids, especially the field-reversed configuration and the spheromak, attempt...
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Geomagnetic reversal (redirect from Geomagnetic field reversal)
when Earth's magnetic field was better understood, theories were advanced suggesting that the Earth's field might have reversed in the remote past. Most...
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In the field of human–computer interaction, a Wizard of Oz experiment is a research experiment in which subjects interact with a computer system that...
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CryoEDM (redirect from Cryogenic neutron EDM experiment)
nEDM experiment was a room temperature neutron EDM experiment which ran at ILL, using ultra-cold neutrons from the ILL reactor. Magnetic field fluctuations...
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in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. RFX may refer to: Reversed-Field eXperiment, a reversed field pinch nuclear fusion device The collective term for a...
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The Wu experiment was a particle and nuclear physics experiment conducted in 1956 by the Chinese American physicist Chien-Shiung Wu in collaboration with...
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Pound–Rebka experiment monitored frequency shifts in gamma rays as they rose and fell in the gravitational field of the Earth. The experiment tested Albert...
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loop is common on tokamaks, magnetic mirrors, Field-reversed configurations, the Levitated dipole experiment and the polywell. In tokamaks a set of loops...
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type of auction in which the traditional roles of buyer and seller are reversed. Thus, there is one buyer and many potential sellers. In an ordinary auction...
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Forty acres and a mule (redirect from Field Order Number 15)
Forty acres and a mule refers to a key part of Special Field Orders, No. 15 (series 1865), a wartime order proclaimed by Union general William Tecumseh...
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configurations produced in toroidal machines are the reversed field pinch and the Levitated Dipole Experiment. The US Navy has also claimed a "Plasma Compression...
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Helmholtz coil (redirect from Quadrupole magnetic field)
apart so that the field expands in the middle, trapping charged particles with the diverging field lines. If one coil is reversed, it produces a cusp...
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (category Thought experiments)
one. In what Kahneman terms their "best-known and most controversial" experiment, "the Linda problem", subjects were told about an imaginary Linda, young...
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self-structured into vortex rings (e.g., smoke ring like objects) which include field-reversed configurations and spheromaks. A structured plasma has the advantage...
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fusion power. The company's design relies on an advanced beam-driven field-reversed configuration (FRC), which combines features from accelerator physics...
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The Michelson–Morley experiment was an attempt to measure the motion of the Earth relative to the luminiferous aether, a supposed medium permeating space...
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plasma into a bigger magnetic confinement experiment like a tokamak. The difference between a field-reversed configuration (FRC) and a spheromak is that...
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Third Doctor (redirect from Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow)
episode "The Lazarus Experiment", the Doctor, while hiding in Lazarus' machine, comments that it had taken him too long to reverse the polarity due to...
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Electromagnetic radiation (redirect from E. M. radiation)
electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is a self-propagating wave of the electromagnetic field that carries momentum and radiant energy through space. It encompasses a...
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Pierre Bourdieu (section Field theory)
of aesthetics have achieved wide influence in several related academic fields (e.g. anthropology, media and cultural studies, education, popular culture...
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