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Plasma Investigations

Conductivity of a weakly nonideal multicomponent alkaki-metal vapor plasma

A. G. Khrapak

Institute for High Temperatures, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow

Abstract: The composition of dense sodium and cesium vapors was calculated with due consideration of polyatomic ions. It is shown that in the vicinity of the saturation curve the formation of double and triple ions appreciably increases the degree of ionization of the plasma. The conductivity of sodium and cesium vapors is calculated and a comparison is made with experimental data.

UDC: 533.932

Received: 19.09.1978

 English version: High Temperature, 1979, 17:6, 946–951

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