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A plasma with a significant excess of charge density, or, in the extreme case, is composed of a single species, is called a non-neutral plasma. In such a plasma, electric fields play a dominant role. Examples are charged particle beams, an electron cloud in a Penning trap and positron plasmas. [30]
Early photo of plasma inside a pinch machine (Imperial College 1950/1951) The first successful man-made fusion device was the boosted fission weapon tested in 1951 in the Greenhouse Item test. The first true fusion weapon was 1952's Ivy Mike, and the first practical example was 1954's Castle Bravo. In these devices, the energy released by a ...
1970 Nobel Prize in Physics "for fundamental work and discoveries in magneto-hydrodynamics with fruitful applications in different parts of plasma physics" Irving Langmuir: coined the term "plasma" to hint at the lifelike behavior of this state of matter. Developed electron temperature concepts and an electrostatic probe, the Langmuir probe.
Donald Bitzer, co-inventor of the plasma screen, died on Dec. 10, 2024, in Cary, NC. He was 90 years old. ... whose invention of the plasma screen in the 1960s made possible the ultra-thin TVs ...
An example of a man-made pinch. Here Z-pinches constrain a plasma inside filaments of electrical discharge from a Tesla coil The MagLIF concept, a combination of a Z-pinch and a laser beam. Pinches exist in nature and in laboratories. Pinches differ in their geometry and operating forces. [12] These include:
A synthetic element is one of 24 known chemical elements that do not occur naturally on Earth: they have been created by human manipulation of fundamental particles in a nuclear reactor, a particle accelerator, or the explosion of an atomic bomb; thus, they are called "synthetic", "artificial", or "man-made".
30 Man-Made Innovations That Were Designed Mimicking Nature’s Blueprints. Mariia Tkachenko. January 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM. ... VELCRO is one of the best-known examples of biomimicry. While hiking ...
A plasma enters what scientists call the burning plasma regime when the self-heating power exceeds any external heating. [1] The Sun is a burning plasma that has reached fusion ignition, meaning the Sun's plasma temperature is maintained solely by energy released from fusion. The Sun has been burning hydrogen for 4.5 billion years and is about ...