gas-discharge centrifuge
gas-discharge centrifuge
[′gas ¦dis‚chärj ′sen·trə‚fyüj] (nucleonics)
A type of plasma centrifuge in which gas between two coaxial electrodes is partially ionized by a radial current between the electrodes and is caused to rotate by the Lorentz force on the radial current.
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