plasmoid

[′plaz‚mȯid]

(physics)

An isolated collection of electrons, ions, and neutral particles which holds together for a duration many times as long as the collision times between particles.

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As the north end re-connected with the surface around 11:48 UT, a plasmoid sphere was hurled over the west limb at high speed between 11:48 and 12:04 UT from the foot of the re-connecting arch.

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And during the final few seconds as the internal thermal gradient and radiation pressure precipitously increased, an equally intense plasmoid magnetic field built up.

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Interestingly, experiments on plasmoid by Bostick et al.

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Baker also described advances in techniques for adding fuel to the plasma, citing the development of high-velocity pellet injectors operating steady-state at speeds in the 1.5 km/sec range and the development of plasmoid injector systems.

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Thus the plasmoid cools and condenses its increasing mass into a compact quasar.

Hence the directional nature of the observed plasmoid ejections.

Observational cosmology: from high redshift galaxies to the blue pacific

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