February 22, 2012

What is the percent of ionization in a plasma?

Question by Trevor: What is the percent of ionization in a plasma?
Just in the average plasma, about what percent of its total makeup is charged particles?

Best answer:

Answer by sparrowhawk
There is no “average plasma” but high temperature plasmas used in fusion experiments typically have ionizations close to 100% where as low temperature plasmas can have ionizations of a few percent or less.

It really depends on the temperature and pressure you are operating at.

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