Understanding Coulomb Force in Plasmas

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tsopa

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Nov 4, 2012

This may be a pretty dumb question.
How is it possible for ions and electrons to coexist in plasma state. Shouldn't be there Coulomb force between them so that they would be bound together and become atoms?

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Nov 4, 2012

Oh I got it. Never mind! How do you delete this thread?

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