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The experiments were carried out in a typical Z-pinch geometry. We employed the apparatus shown schematically in Fig. 9. A capacitor bank was discharged through a lithium wire placed in an evacuated chamber with quartz walls. The diameter of the chamber was 10 cm and the length of the discharge was varied from 15 to 100 cm. The capacitance of the bank was 1800–4200 μF and it was charged to 6 kV. A lithium (or indium) wire was extruded directly into the vacuum chamber and this was done using a special press. The wire thickness was governed by the diameter of an interchangeable die and in our experiments this diameter ranged from 10-2 to 0.1 cm.
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Basov, N.G. (1976). Experimental Investigations of Discharges in Lithium Plasmas. In: Basov, N.G. (eds) Lasers and Their Applications / Lazery I Ikh Primenenie / Лазеры И Их Применение. The Lebedev Physics Institute Series, vol 76. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-1620-6_3
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