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Electric Fields in Cosmic Plasma

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Electric fields play a crucial role in cosmic plasmas. Electric fields can accelerate charged particles to high energies and cause currents to flow, generate and “unfreeze” magnetic fields in plasmas, cause plasma to pinch into filaments, separate chemical elements, and initiate the collapse of plasma to the condensate and neutral state of matter.

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Peratt, A.L. (1992). Electric Fields in Cosmic Plasma. In: Physics of the Plasma Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2780-9_4

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