Z-pinch
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thumb|right|300px|A laboratory-scale Z-pinch showing glow from an expanded hydrogen plasma. The pinch current flows through the gas and returns via the bars surrounding the plasma vessel.
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- Physics
- History
- Early machines
- Stabilized pinch
- Fusion-based propulsion
- Tokamak
- Sheared-flow stabilized
- Companies
- Experiments
- See also
- References
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thumb|right|300px|A laboratory-scale Z-pinch showing glow from an expanded hydrogen plasma. The pinch current flows through the gas and returns via the bars surrounding the plasma vessel.
thumb|right|300px|A desktop-sized inductively coupled current-driven toroidal Z-pinch in a krypton plasma showing an intense glow from a plasma filament.
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