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ABOVE a certain critical velocity the rate of loss of momentum of an ion in Coulomb collisions with other particles decreases with relative velocity. This leads to the possibility that ions in a plasma can be continuously accelerated by an electric field. Such ions are called ‘runaway’ ions.
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GIBSON, A. Possibility of Ion Runaway in Zeta. Nature 183, 101–102 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183101a0
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