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Line 17: : ''T<sub>e</sub>''is the electron temperature. == The ideal plasma approximation == One of the criteria which determines whether a collection of charged particles can rigorously be termed aan [[ideal plasma]] is that Λ>>1. When this is the case, collective electrostatic interactions dominate over binary collisions, and the plasma particles can be treated as if they only interact with a smooth background field, rather than through pairwise interactions (collisions) <ref>J.D. Callen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Draft Material for Fundamentals of Plasma Physics book: Collective Plasma Phenomena [http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~callen/chap1.pdf PDF]</ref>. The [[equation of state]] of ideal plasma is that of [[ideal gas]]. == Plasma properties and Λ ==

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