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Van Allen radiation belt
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Van Allen radiation belt [va′nal·ən ‚rād·ē′a·shən ‚belt]
(geophysics)
One of the belts of intense ionizing radiation in space about the earth formed by high-energy charged particles which are trapped by the geomagnetic field.
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