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magnetic confinement

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magnetic confinement [mag′ned·ik kən′fīn·mənt]
(plasma physics)
The containment of a plasma within a region of space by the forces of magnetic fields on the charged particles in the gas.


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No one had ever before put tritium inside any sort of magnetic confinement device.
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In plasma physics the committee recommends continued efforts toward controlled thermonuclear fusion, both magnetic confinement and inertial confinement experiments.
 
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