THE PERVASIVE PLASMA STATE that exists throughout the universe, in laboratories and in commercial applications, occurs over a wide variety of densities and temperatures. [Courtesy of the Contempory Physics Education Project]

The Pervasive Plasma State

Produced by Division of Plasma Physics of the American Physical Society

Editor: Herbert L. Berk

Technical Assistant: William H. Miner, Jr.

Designed by: Joe London, UT Publications

Printing: The Whitley Company (Austin, Texas), 1996

Cover Photograph: Electron Cyclotron Resonance Reactor (see page 5)

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