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jamesr
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vansig wrote:
what is the exit velocity?

I would think there would be quite a spread of speeds, partly from the thermal Maxwellian speed distribution of the ions, but also their orientation to the E & B fields. But the peak would still be around the peak of the thermal distribution. So at 100keV the speed is ~2000km/s or 0.007% of c. Rising to 5400km/s at 600keV