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Magnetically Induced Rotating Rayleigh-Taylor Instability
Published on: March 3, 2017
A paradox in the interaction of the gravitational and electromagnetic fields?
1Sternwarte der Universität Bonn.
Nature
|January 1, 1971
Abstract
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