The plasma confinement times were studied in the levitated spherator FM-1 as a function of the electron density and electron temperature. It was found that below approximately 1 eV, the plasma confinement time is proportional to Tₑᵐnₑ(1/2<~m<~3/4) with an absolute confinement time 4-6 times below the classical confinement time. Above 1 eV the confinement time decreases as Tₑ^-1 with an absolute confinement of 300 times the so-called Bohm diffusion time.
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