Fundamentals of Plasma Physics
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780521528009
Subjects: Physics; Science; Science / Physics
First sentence: In the mid nineteenth century the Czech physiologist Jan Evangelista Purkinje introduced use of the Greek word plasma (meaning "formed" or "molded") to denote the clear fluid that remains after removal of all the corpuscular material in blood.