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Spectroscopic and callorimetric measurements of temperature arid number density have been made using a 50-kW radio-frequency inductively coupled plasma (RFICP) torch operated at atmospheric pressure with maximum temperatures and electron densities near 8,1000 K and 2 x 1021 m3, respectively These measurements enabled the determination o/ the stale o/ equilibrium and of the corresponding applicability of rarious diagnostic techniques in hoth a recombining argon plasma and a recombining plasma with hydrogen or nitrogen. Results indicate that the Pure argon plasma is well described by u partial equilibrium model in which the free and bound-excited electrons are in mutual equilibrium irespective of possible departures from equilibrium with the ground state. The addition of just tenths of a percent of either atomic Hydrogen or nitrogen, however, disturbs this partial equilibrium hr argon plasmas with electron densities roughly less than 1021 m3 such that only diagnostic techniques which are independent o/ partial equilibrium assumptions can be reliably implemented.
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Gordon, M.H., Kruger, C.H. Temperature and density measurements in a recombining argon plasma with diluent. Plasma Chem Plasma Process 13, 365–378 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01465871
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