My only problem with "plasmoid" is that "oid" means "kinda sorta" and does not really explain what a "plasmoid" is. They are found in the solar wind, in comet tails and the Earth's magnetic tail.
We get to go through ISON's tail in January 2014 so maybe we will get a good dose. The word *plasmoid* was coined in 1956 by Winston H. Bostick<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_H._Bostick>(1916-1991) to mean a "plasma-magnetic entity":[7]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmoid#cite_note-bostick1956-7> A *plasmoid* is a coherent structure of plasma<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(physics)> and magnetic fields <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_field>. Plasmoids have been proposed to explain natural phenomena such as ball lightning <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning>,[1]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmoid#cite_note-1> magnetic bubbles in the magnetosphere <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetosphere>, [2] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmoid#cite_note-2> and objects in cometary tails,[3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmoid#cite_note-3> in the solar wind,[4] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmoid#cite_note-4>[5]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmoid#cite_note-5> in the solar atmosphere,[6] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmoid#cite_note-6> and in the heliospheric current sheet<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliospheric_current_sheet>. Plasmoids produced in the laboratory include field-reversed configurations<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field-reversed_configuration> ,spheromaks <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheromak>, and in dense plasma focuses <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense_plasma_focus>. The plasma is emitted not as an amorphous blob, but in the form of a torus<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus>. We shall take the liberty of calling this toroidal structure a plasmoid, a word which means plasma-magnetic entity. The word plasmoid will be employed as a generic term for all plasma-magnetic entities On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Axil Axil <[email protected]> wrote: > It might be possible to gain research information on and harvest pulsed > electrical power from the energy contained in polariton plasmoids formed in > solitons using 0D transistors inside the Ni/H reactor. Remember that the > cavitation bubble is similar to the soliton in its mechanisms and energy > content. > > > > http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1307/1307.6723.pdf > > > > *Water Electrolysis and Energy Harvesting with 0D Ion-Sensitive > Field-Effect Transistors* >
