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The 13 pages that link to Debye length, each with the reason it gives.

• Mean free pathCompared with: It is another plasma length scale, set by collective screening rather than collision frequency.

• Ionic strengthRelated: Increasing ionic strength shortens this distance, weakening long-range electrostatic effects.

• Debye–Hückel theoryRelated: It measures the spatial range of the ionic screening assumed in the theory.

• Peter DebyeBroader topic: Debye’s work on electrolytes led to this measure of electrostatic screening.

• Yukawa potentialRelated: It plays the role of the decay length in Debye-screened Coulomb interactions.

• Number densityRelated: The number density of charged particles helps set the screening distance.

• Plasma diagnosticsRelated: It governs sheath dimensions and whether a probe samples collective plasma behavior.

• NanofluidicsRelated: When channel dimensions approach this length, surface charge influences nearly the entire fluid.

• Astrophysical electromagnetic fieldsRelated: It explains why large-scale cosmic plasmas are often nearly electrically neutral.

• Electric-field screeningBroader topic: It predicts whether surface or particle charges influence nearby regions of a solution.

• Electrokinetic flowsRelated: It sets the thickness scale of the interfacial charge layer.

• First-principles calculations in plasma physicsRelated: It sets a fundamental spatial scale for resolving collective electrostatic effects.

• Laboratory studies of space and astrophysical plasmasBroader topic: Its relation to device size helps determine whether an experiment captures collective plasma behavior.