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The plasma potentially produces a plethora of such instabilities, due to the fact that it is in a state far from thermodynamic equilibrium, with steep density, temperature, and pressure gradients.
The plasma potentially produces a plethora of such instabilities, due to the fact that it is in a state far from thermodynamic equilibrium, with steep density, temperature, and pressure gradients.
The most likely candidates involved in generating the observed anomalous transport are:
The most likely candidates involved in generating the observed anomalous transport are:
<ref>J. Weiland, ''Collective modes in inhomogeneous plasma: kinetic and advanced fluid theory'', Plasma physics series, CRC Press (2000) ISBN 0750305894</ref>
* Ion Temperature Gradient (ITG) instabilities
* Ion Temperature Gradient (ITG) instabilities
* Electron Temperature Gradient (ETG) instabilities
* Electron Temperature Gradient (ETG) instabilities

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