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The interpenetration of one substance into another as a result of thermal / random motion of the individual particles. (e.g., the diffusion of a plasma across a magnetic field as a result of collisions which cause particles to move onto new field lines. )
Industry:Physics
A daytime layer of the earth's ionosphere approximately 50 to 90 km in altitude.
Industry:Physics
High acceleration of electrons in a collisional plasma caused by a suddenly applied electric field (which greatly reduces the collision cross section of the electrons).
Industry:Physics
Poleward of the diffuse aurora is the region of discrete auroral arcs produced by monoenergetic field-aligned particle beams which create a "bubbling" effect in the E-region at the end of the field lines along which they are traveling.
Industry:Physics
The velocity of a wave disturbance as a whole, i.e., of an entire group of component simple harmonic waves.
Industry:Physics
The separation or branching into two parts, areas, aspects or connected segments, of anatomical systems or functions.
Industry:Physics
Degree to which a substance transmits (conducts) a given physical property, such as heat or electricity.
Industry:Physics
A rapid loss of plasma across magnetic field lines caused by microinstabilities. Theory formulated by the physicist David Bohm. From Chen's book (see references): "Semiempirical formula for the diffusion coefficient given by Bohm in 1946 (noted by Bohm, Burhop, and Massey, who were developing a magnetic arc for use in uranium isotope separation). " Bohm diffusion was proposed (not derived from first principles) to scale as 1/B rather than the 1/B^2 scaling predicted by classical diffusion. A 1/B scaling results from assuming that particles diffuse across field lines at an optimum rate (effective collision frequency=cyclotron frequency). The 1/B scaling is observed (approximately) in most reactors.
Industry:Physics
In atmospheric electricity, the number of ions per unit volume of a given sample of air; more particularly, the number of ions of a given type (positive small ion, negative small ion, positive large ion, or negative large ion) per unit volume of air.
Industry:Physics
A phenomenon occurring in the e region of the ionosphere, which significantly affects HF radiowave propagation. Sporadic E can occur during daytime or nighttime and it varies markedly with latitude.
Industry:Physics
