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The electrical conductivity of shock-ionized argon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2006

H. J. Pain  and
P. R. Smy
H. J. Pain
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, S.W. 7
P. R. Smy
Affiliation:
Physics Department, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, S.W. 7
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Abstract

The electrical conductivity of shock-ionized argon has been measured at temperatures between 6000 °K and 13,000 °K and electron number densities in the range 1016 to 1018 cm−3. The results are compared with theoretically computed values and show sufficient agreement to be plotted on a linear scale. The experimental technique is based on the measurement of voltages generated in a search coil by the flux from currents induced in a plasma moving rapidly through a magnetic field.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Fluid Mechanics , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , November 1960 , pp. 390 - 400
Copyright
© 1960 Cambridge University Press

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