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=== Typical values === In space plasmas where the electron density is relatively low, the Debye length may reach macroscopic values, such as in the magnetosphere, solar wind, interstellar medium and intergalactic medium. See the table here below:<ref>{{cite book | chapter=Chapter 20: The Particle Kinetics of Plasma |title=Applications of Classical Physics |author=Kip Thorne |date=2012 |url=http://www.pmaweb.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2012/ |chapter-url=http://www.pmaweb.caltech.edu/Courses/ph136/yr2012/1220.1.K.pdf |access-date=September 7, 2017}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |- ! Plasma ! Density<br />{{nobold|''n''<sub>e</sub> (m<sup>β3</sup>)}} ! Electron temperature<br />{{nobold|''T'' (K)}} ! Magnetic field<br />{{nobold|''B'' (T)}} ! Debye length<br />{{nobold|''Ξ»''<sub>D</sub> (m)}} |- align=center ! style="text-align:left" | Solar core | 10<sup>32</sup> | 10<sup>7</sup> | {{--}} | 10<sup>β11</sup> |- align=center ! style="text-align:left" | [[Tokamak]] | 10<sup>20</sup> | 10<sup>8</sup> | 10 | 10<sup>β4</sup> |- align=center ! style="text-align:left" | Gas discharge | 10<sup>16</sup> | 10<sup>4</sup> | {{--}} | 10<sup>β4</sup> |- align=center ! style="text-align:left" | Ionosphere | 10<sup>12</sup> | 10<sup>3</sup> | 10<sup>β5</sup> | 10<sup>β3</sup> |- align=center ! style="text-align:left" | Magnetosphere | 10<sup>7</sup> | 10<sup>7</sup> | 10<sup>β8</sup> | 10<sup>2</sup> |- align=center ! style="text-align:left" | Solar wind | 10<sup>6</sup> | 10<sup>5</sup> | 10<sup>β9</sup> | 10 |- align=center ! style="text-align:left" | Interstellar medium | 10<sup>5</sup> | 10<sup>4</sup> | 10<sup>β10</sup> | 10 |- align=center ! style="text-align:left" | Intergalactic medium | 1 | 10<sup>6</sup> | {{--}} | 10<sup>5</sup> |- |+ align="bottom" style="style="caption-side: bottom" | |}
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