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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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