PRODUCTION OF FAST JETS OF IONIZED BARIUM USING EXPLOSIVE SHAPED CHARGES
- 1 January 1969
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 14 (1) , 35-37
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1652649
Abstract
Barium jets have been produced in a series of preliminary ground tests using the shaped‐charge technique; this suggests that ionized barium metal streams may be injected in this way into the ionosphere with the object of measuring ionospheric electric fields.Keywords
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