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Electrical circuits involving gas discharges may be unstable because the resistance of the gas discharge tends to decrease with increasing current. A semiquantitative treatment of these instabilities, relevant to tokamak, reversed Z pinch, and similar plasma physics devices, is provided.
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Jensen et al. (1979) studied this question.
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