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The electric field - due to the positive and negative ions of the
plasma - is shielded (cancelled ) in the debye sphere.
The Debye sphere is a sphere inside the plasma of radius equal to
.
( The Debye length) is the distance at which the a charge is
shielded by surrounding ions.
In another words, the electric field due to the positive charge - in
the graph - is shielded (cancelled) by the surrounding charges
present that form the debye sphere.
where
is the electron number density.
T is the temperature.