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The aggregate of problems connected with the physics of ion and cluster plasma is qualitatively considered. Such a plasma can exist when a dense gas is ionized by a hard ionizer. The conditions for the formation of an ion plasma and the difference between its characteristics and those of an ordinary electron plasma are discussed; a solvated-ion model and the distribution of the clusters with respect to the number of solvated molecules are considered. The recombination rate of the positively and negatively charged clusters is roughly estimated. The parameters of a ball-lightning plasma are estimated on the basis of the cluster model.
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Translated from Trudy Fizicheskogo Instituta im. P. M. Lebedeva, Vol. 120, pp. 50–64, 1980.
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Gudzenko, L.I., Derzhiev, V.I. & Yakovlenko, S.I. Some properties of ion and cluster plasma. J Russ Laser Res 3, 219–231 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01134146
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