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A study is made of erosional plasma processes occurring with the exposure of metals to a laser beam, a plasma, and a combination of the two. It is found that the ionization of the initially heated vapors is of a thermal nature, whether an erosional plasma is formed by an impulsive electrical discharge or a near-surface optical discharge.
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Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Minsk. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 62, No. 5, pp. 685–686, May, 1992.
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Min'ko, L.Y. Physical essence of erosional plasma formation and the formation of plasma flows by the action of different types of high-energy sources on absorbing condensed media. J Eng Phys Thermophys 62, 487–488 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00862329
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00862329