Plasma gun

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Plasma gun may refer to:

  • Plasma weapon, a type of raygun that fires a stream, bolt, pulse or toroid of plasma
  • Plasma torch, a device for generating a directed flow of plasma
  • Plasma railgun, a linear accelerator which, like a projectile railgun, uses two long parallel electrodes to accelerate a "sliding short" armature
  • Dense plasma focus, a type of plasma generating system originally developed as a fusion power device

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