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The 57 pages that link to Plasma physics, each with the reason it gives.

• Nuclear fusionNarrower topic: Fusion fuels must become plasma to reach the temperatures needed for frequent nuclear collisions.

• MagnetohydrodynamicsNarrower topic: Plasmas are the most common conducting fluids studied in astrophysical and laboratory settings.

• IonNarrower topic: Ions are among the charged particles that make plasma electrically conductive.

• Magnetic reconnectionNarrower topic: Reconnection occurs in plasma, where charged particles carry currents and respond to changing fields.

• MagnetosphereNarrower topic: The magnetosphere is a region of plasma governed by magnetic forces.

• IonizationNarrower topic: Ionization creates the charged particles that make a gas a plasma.

• Magnetic confinement fusionNarrower topic: Magnetic confinement acts on plasma rather than neutral gas.

• Charged particleNarrower topic: Large populations of charged particles make plasma behave differently from neutral gases.

• Intergalactic mediumNarrower topic: Much of the medium is ionized, so plasma physics governs its behavior.

• TokamakNarrower topic: Tokamak fuel becomes plasma at temperatures where magnetic confinement can act on charged particles.

• Debye lengthNarrower topic: Debye length characterizes electrostatic screening in this broader medium.

• Electrical arcNarrower topic: An arc is a narrow, hot plasma channel linking its electrodes.

• Faraday rotationNarrower topic: Its free electrons and ions provide the medium through which radio waves acquire rotation.

• Electric arcNarrower topic: The hot, ionized gas in an arc is plasma, and its charged particles carry the current.

• Interplanetary magnetic fieldNarrower topic: The solar wind is plasma, allowing it to carry and interact with magnetic fields.

• Jupiter's magnetosphereNarrower topic: Plasma carries currents that couple charged particles to magnetic fields.

• Stellar coreNarrower topic: Stellar cores consist largely of ionized matter rather than ordinary neutral gas.

• Irving LangmuirNarrower topic: Langmuir’s discharge experiments helped establish the modern study of plasma.

• Lyman SpitzerNarrower topic: Understanding plasma behavior is necessary to assess the confinement problem behind Spitzer's stellarator.

• NeonNarrower topic: An operating neon tube contains ionized gas and free electrons: a low-temperature plasma.

• Plasma displayNarrower topic: Electrical discharges turn the cell gas into the plasma that generates ultraviolet radiation.

• Solar physicsNarrower topic: The Sun is made of plasma, so its behavior differs from that of ordinary gas.

• Astrophysical fluid dynamicsNarrower topic: Most visible cosmic gas is ionized, so electromagnetic forces often shape its motion.

• Meghnad SahaNarrower topic: Ionized stellar gas is plasma, the broader physical setting for Saha’s equation.

• DivertorNarrower topic: Divertor exhaust is plasma whose motion is strongly shaped by magnetic fields.

• Laser-produced plasmaNarrower topic: Laser-produced plasma is one way to create this broader state of matter.

• Space physicsNarrower topic: Most visible matter in the Sun and heliosphere exists in this state.

• Astrophysical jetNarrower topic: Astrophysical jets consist mainly of plasma rather than neutral gas.

• Franklin Chang-DíazNarrower topic: VASIMR generates and controls this electrically conducting state of matter.

• Interplanetary mediumNarrower topic: Most of the medium’s gas is plasma rather than electrically neutral matter.

• Ion beamNarrower topic: Many ion sources create ions from plasma before extracting them into a beam.

• Vlasov equationNarrower topic: The equation became a foundational model for collisionless plasmas.

• Alfvén's theoremNarrower topic: The theorem became foundational for describing magnetic fields in astrophysical and laboratory plasmas.

• Astrophysical electromagnetic fieldsNarrower topic: Most visible cosmic matter is ionized, so field dynamics usually involve plasma.

• High-energy-density plasmaNarrower topic: High-energy-density plasma is an extreme regime of this broader state of matter.

• Laboratory plasmaNarrower topic: Laboratory plasmas are controlled instances of this broader state of matter.

• Neutral beam injectionNarrower topic: The injected atoms ionize into the plasma that absorbs their energy.

• Plasma recombinationNarrower topic: Recombination is one process that changes a plasma's charged-particle population.

• Vlasov–Fokker–Planck modelNarrower topic: Plasma applications combine long-range self-consistent fields with collisional relaxation.