toroidal magnetic field
111io — /ee oh/, n., pl. ios. a small hawk, Buteo solitarius, having two plumage phases and occurring only on the island of Hawaii, where it is a rare species and the only living indigenous bird of prey. Also called Hawaiian hawk. [ < Hawaiian io] * * *… …
112Io — /uy oh, ee oh/, n. 1. Class. Myth. a woman who, being loved by Zeus, was transformed into a white heifer and was, at the wish of Hera, first guarded by Argus and later pursued through the world by a gadfly until she reached Egypt, where she… …
113Gas torus — A gas torus is a toroidal cloud of gas or plasma that encircles a planet. In Earth s solar system, gas tori tend to be produced by the interaction of a satellite s atmosphere with the magnetic field of a planet. The most famous example of this is …
114Harold Furth — Harold Paul Furth (* 13. Januar 1930 in Wien; † 21. Februar 2002 in Philadelphia) war ein US amerikanischer Physiker, der führend in der Fusionsforschung und Plasmaphysik in den USA war. Leben und Werk Furth besuchte die Internationale Schule in… …
115stellarator — ˈsteləˌrād.ə(r) noun ( s) Etymology: stellar + ator (as in generator); from its use of temperatures approaching those occurring in some stars : a toroidal device for producing controlled nuclear fusion that involves the confining and heating of a …
116Trisops — was an experimental machine for the study of magnetic confinement of plasmas with the ultimate goal of producing fusion power. The configuration was a variation of a compact toroid, a toroidal (doughnut shaped) structure of plasma and magnetic… …
117List of English words of Russian origin — Including English, contain words most likely borrowed from the Russian language. Not all of the words are truly fluent Russian or Slavic origin. Some of them co exist in other Slavic languages and it is difficult to decide whether they made… …
118Compact toroid — Compact toroids are a class of toroidal plasma configurations that are self stable, and whose configuration does not require magnet coils running through the center of the toroid. They are studied primarily in the field of fusion energy, where… …
119KSTAR — The KSTAR, or Korea Superconducting Tokamak Advanced Research is a magnetic fusion device being built at the National Fusion Research Institute in Daejon, South Korea. It is intended to study aspects of magnetic fusion energy which will be… …
120Lawson criterion — In nuclear fusion research, the Lawson criterion, first derived on fusion reactors (initially classified) by John D. Lawson in 1955 and published in 1957,[1] is an important general measure of a system that defines the conditions needed for a… …
