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The positive column of a gas discharge is shown to become unstable when a sufficiently large longitudinal magnetic field is superimposed. This instability causes oscillations which lead to an increase in the flux of charged particles striking the walls; that is, in agreement with the experimental results, there is an increase in the effective diffusion.
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Kadomtsev et al. (1960) studied this question.
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