The biconic cusp, also known as the picket fence reactor, was one of the earliest suggestions for plasma confinement in a fusion reactor. It consists of...
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Magnetic mirror (section Biconic cusps)
magnetic bottle is reversed, it becomes a biconic cusp, which can also hold charged particles. Biconic cusps were first studied by Harold Grad at the Courant...
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Polywell (section Cusp confinement)
the fusor, the high beta fusion reactor, the magnetic mirror, and the biconic cusp. A set of electromagnets generates a magnetic field that traps electrons...
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measurement and topic when studying the magnetosphere, magnetic mirrors, biconic cusps and polywells. See Aurora and Ring current It is customary to discuss...
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line. Variations included the Tandem Mirror, magnetic bottle and the biconic cusp. A series of mirror machines were built by the US government in the 1970s...
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how electrons behave inside the biconic cusp, done by Harold Grad group at the Courant Institute in 1957. A biconic cusp is a device with two alike magnetic...
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early fusion schemes including picket fences, magnetic mirrors and Biconic cusps. In 1970, Grad became a member of the National Academy of Sciences....
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reaching a height between 1.0 and 60 cm. The shells are spindle-shaped and biconic. The spire is elongated. The siphonal canal is well developed and is long...
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Shell characters (living and fossil species) The shell is elongated to biconical in shape. The protoconch is paucispiral, the spire is scalariform. The...
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shell is wide in the middle and tapers at both ends, making it fusiform to biconic. The size of the shell varies in length between 5 mm and 85 mm. Its color...
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shell can have different forms: from squatly conical to elongated or even biconical. There are no nodules on the shell, but cords may be present. The interior...
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diameter 7.1 mm. (Original description) The thin, white, tumid, subequally biconical shell is subangulated and cancellated, with longitudinal and spiral threads...
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