Al|fvén wave

Al|fvén wave
Al|fvén wave «ahl VAYN»,
a magnetohydrodynamic wave generated by motion within an electrically conducting plasma in a magnetic field.
[< Hannes Alfvén, born 1908, a Swedish physicist, who discovered it]

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