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Dust in Space and in the Laboratory Including Further Examples of Electric Reconnection and Critical Velocity Ionization

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Final chapter is supplemented by a variety of dust-involved phenomena in space and in the laboratory that have not been treated in the previous chapters, including latest observations and further examples of electric reconnection and critical ionization. They are: upper atmospheric discharges to the ionosphere, nebular lightning and Chondrules formation, ball lightning, atmospheric, ionospheric, and magnetospheric effects associated with earthquakes, interplanetary dust and planetary rings, planetary lightning, and Saturn electrostatic discharges.

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