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Alfvén wave
In
plasma physics
, an
Alfvén wave
, named after
Hannes Alfvén
, is a type of
magnetohydrodynamic
wave
in which
ions
oscillate in response to a restoring force provided by an
effective tension
on the
magnetic field
lines.
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