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Physics of plasmas are a special class of gases made up of large number of electrons and ionized atoms and molecules, in addition to neutral atoms and molecules as are present in a non-ionized or so-called normal gas. Although by far most of the universe is ionized and is therefore in a plasma state, on our planet plasmas have to be generated by special processes and under special conditions. Since human got to know fire and thunderstorm caused lightning in the sky and the aurora borealis, we have been living in a bubble of essentially non-ionized gas in the midst of an otherwise ionized environment. The physics of plasma is a field in which knowledge is expanding rapidly, in particular a means of producing what is so known as source generating clean energy via either magnetic confinement or inertial confinement. The growing science of plasmas excites lively interest in many people with various levels of training.
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Zohuri, B. (2016). Principles of Plasma Physics. In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Thermonuclear Reactions Driven Fusion Energy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47310-9_2
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