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Scientific Paper
TitleExperiments with Ion Threads
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Author(s)Bill Beaty
Keywordscoherent threads, plasma sheath, ion wind, experiment, high-voltage, ion threads, electric wind
Published1998
JournalElectric Spacecraft Journal
Number27
Pages14-15

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Abstract

Bill Beaty found a simple method for creating, detecting and experimenting with the coherent ion threads originally discovered by Charles Yost in 1995. This method employs dry ice instead of Yost's Schlieren imaging.