Critical ionization velocity (CIV), or critical velocity (CV), is the relative velocity between a neutral gas and plasma (an ionized gas), at which the...
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Critical velocity may refer to Critical ionization velocity, relative velocity between a neutral gas and plasma at which the neutral gas will start to...
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(AFP-675); Infrared Background Signature Survey (IBSS) with Critical ionization velocity (CIV), Chemical Release Observation (CRO) and Shuttle pallet...
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astrophysics, none mention the pinch effect, none mentioned critical ionization velocity, only two mentioned circuits, and three mentioned double layers...
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was infuriated because his dissertation, titled Study of the "Critical Ionization Velocity" Effect by Particle-in-Cell Simulation, did not receive the prestigious...
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the Second Boer War Corona inception voltage, in astrophysics Critical ionization velocity, in electrical engineering 104 (number), or CIV in Roman numerals...
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Plasma (physics) (redirect from Ionized gas)
temperatures are usually needed to sustain ionization, which is a defining feature of a plasma. The degree of plasma ionization is determined by the electron temperature...
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dimensionless quantity in fluid dynamics representing the ratio of flow velocity past a boundary to the local speed of sound. It is named after the Austrian...
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(SCF) is a gas whose temperature and pressure are above the critical temperature and critical pressure respectively. In this state, the distinction between...
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achieve critical velocity ionization. Ion source and collisional stripping will not occur for the xenon gas and there is no photo-ionization in darkness;...
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Radiation (section Ionizing radiation)
requires only single particles to cause ionization. A familiar example of thermal ionization is the flame-ionization of a common fire, and the browning reactions...
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Mass spectrometry (redirect from Soft ionization)
electrospray ionization (ESI) and Koichi Tanaka for the development of soft laser desorption (SLD) and their application to the ionization of biological...
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Ionosphere (section Layers of ionization)
ionization present, while the ionization in the E and D layers is extremely low. During the day, the D and E layers become much more heavily ionized,...
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universal instability) Lower hybrid (drift) instability (in the Critical ionization velocity mechanism) Magnetic drift instability, Slow Drift Instability...
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is the combined effect of the Earth's magnetic field and atmospheric ionization, whereby a linearly polarized wave entering the ionosphere is split into...
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of uranium using selective ionization of hyperfine transitions. The technique uses lasers tuned to frequencies that ionize 235U atoms and no others. The...
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Chemical Release Observation sub-satellites) and a non-deployable Critical Ionization Velocity element. The Air Force Program 675 payload was included on the...
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Faster-than-light (category Velocity)
gives the correct velocity-addition formula for computing such relative velocity. It is instructive to compute the relative velocity of particles moving...
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sufficiently dense to be a continuum, do not contain ionized species, and have flow velocities that are small in relation to the speed of light, the...
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Smoke detector (redirect from Ionization smoke detector)
need for external wiring. Ionization smoke detectors are usually less expensive to manufacture than optical detectors. Ionization detectors may be more prone...
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feature is that the propellant ionization process is physically separated from the ion acceleration process. The ionization process takes place in the discharge...
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Alfvén wave (redirect from Alfven velocity)
certain plasma regimes. The characteristic speed of these waves—the Alfvén velocity—depends on the magnetic field strength and the plasma density, making these...
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ambiguous and may also refer to the non-transport ionization balance of recombination and ionization. The only thing they have in common is that a coronal...
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A criticality accident is an accidental uncontrolled nuclear fission chain reaction. It is sometimes referred to as a critical excursion, critical power...
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material, the electrons respond by moving with an average velocity called the drift velocity, v d {\displaystyle v_{d}} . Then the electron mobility μ...
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needed from thermal ionization of suitable seed materials, and from non-equilibrium ionization by fission fragments and other ionizing radiation produced...
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Electromagnetic electron wave (redirect from Critical plasma density)
electron plasma frequency. These oscillations do not propagate—the group velocity is 0. When the thermal motion of the electrons is taken into account a...
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In telecommunications, the term critical frequency has the following meanings: In radio propagation by way of the ionosphere, the frequency at or below...
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the same sign as the velocity of the charges. For negative charges, the sign of the current density is opposite to the velocity of the charges.: 749 ...
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collision Coulomb explosion Columbia Non-neutral Torus Crackle tube Critical ionization velocity Crookes tube Current sheet Cutoff frequency Cyclotron radiation...
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