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  2. Magnetohydrodynamics - Wikipedia

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    Researchers have developed global models using MHD to simulate phenomena within Earth's magnetosphere, such as the location of Earth's magnetopause [24] (the boundary between the Earth's magnetic field and the solar wind), the formation of the ring current, auroral electrojets, [25] and geomagnetically induced currents.

  3. Magnetosonic wave - Wikipedia

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    Under the assumption that the background temperature is zero, it follows from the ideal gas law that the thermal pressure is also zero, p 0 = 0, and, as a result, that the sound speed vanishes, c s = 0. In this case, the slow mode disappears from the system, ω 2 sl = 0, and the fast mode propagates isotropically with the Alfvén speed, ω 2 f ...

  4. Magnetosphere - Wikipedia

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    Magnetosphere. A rendering of the magnetic field lines of the magnetosphere of the Earth. In astronomy and planetary science, a magnetosphere is a region of space surrounding an astronomical object in which charged particles are affected by that object's magnetic field. [1][2] It is created by a celestial body with an active interior dynamo.

  5. Vapour pressure of water - Wikipedia

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    759.9625. 1.0000. The vapor pressure of water is the pressure exerted by molecules of water vapor in gaseous form (whether pure or in a mixture with other gases such as air). The saturation vapor pressure is the pressure at which water vapor is in thermodynamic equilibrium with its condensed state. At pressures higher than saturation vapor ...

  6. Critical point (thermodynamics) - Wikipedia

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    Supercritical ethane, fluid. [ 1 ] In thermodynamics, a critical point (or critical state) is the end point of a phase equilibrium curve. One example is the liquid–vapor critical point, the end point of the pressuretemperature curve that designates conditions under which a liquid and its vapor can coexist. At higher temperatures, the gas ...

  7. Magnetic reconnection - Wikipedia

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    Magnetic reconnection is a breakdown of "ideal-magnetohydrodynamics" and so of "Alfvén's theorem" (also called the "frozen-in flux theorem") which applies to large-scale regions of a highly-conducting magnetoplasma, for which the Magnetic Reynolds Number is very large: this makes the convective term in the induction equation dominate in such regions.

  8. Plasma beta - Wikipedia

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    Plasma beta. The beta of a plasma, symbolized by β, is the ratio of the plasma pressure (p = nkBT) to the magnetic pressure (pmag = B2 /2 μ0). The term is commonly used in studies of the Sun and Earth's magnetic field, and in the field of fusion power designs. In the fusion power field, plasma is often confined using strong magnets.

  9. Properties of water - Wikipedia

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    The compressibility of water is a function of pressure and temperature. At 0 °C, at the limit of zero pressure, the compressibility is 5.1 × 10 −10 Pa −1. At the zero-pressure limit, the compressibility reaches a minimum of 4.4 × 10 −10 Pa −1 around 45 °C before increasing again