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The paper presents an introductory review of the basic physical processes in dusty plasmas. The topics to be addressed are dust charging, forces acting on dust grains, interaction between dust grains, and dust-plasma structures.

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Translated from Fizika Plazmy, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2005, pp. 52–63.

Original Russian Text Copyright © 2005 by Ignatov.

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Ignatov, A.M. Basics of dusty plasma. Plasma Phys. Rep. 31, 46–56 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1856707

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