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Baryonic matter in the Universe, apart from extremely rare exceptions like planets and us, is in the plasma state, not necessarily but possibly magnetized.
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Throughout my manuscript, I take the liberty to use the term plasma loosely to designate interchangeably ionized and neutral fluids except, of course, in cases where the ionization state is essential.
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For additional details, see for instance the following discussion by Kirk T. McDonald on the Helmholtz decomposition: http://puhep1.princeton.edu/~kirkmcd/examples/helmholtz.pdf.
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The right hand side of (2.31) is the ‘residue’ of this source term once the non-relativistic limit is taken in addition.
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Durrive, JB. (2017). Tools. In: Baryonic Processes in the Large-Scale Structuring of the Universe. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61881-4_2
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