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plasmoid is a coherent structure of
plasma and
magnetic fields. Plasmoids have been proposed to explain natural phenomena such as
ball lightning, magnetic bubbles in the
magnetosphere, and objects in cometary tails, in the solar wind, in the solar atmosphere, and in the
heliospheric current sheet. Plasmoids produced in the laboratory include
Field-Reversed Configurations,
Spheromaks, and the
dense plasma focus.
The word
plasmoid was coined in 1956 by
Winston H. Bostick (1916-1991) to mean a "plasma-magnetic entity":
The plasma is emitted not as an amorphous blob, but in the form of a torus. We shall take the liberty of calling this toroidal structure a plasmoid, a word which means plasma-magnetic entity. The word plasmoid will be employed as a generic term for all plasma-magnetic entities.
Plasmoid characteristics
Bostick wrote: applied plasma
similarity transformations to pairs of plasmoids fired from a plasma gun (dense plasma focus device) that interact in such a way as to simulate an early model of galaxy formation.
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