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Volume 53 Supplement 6

Special Issue: Magnetic Reconnection in Space and Laboratory Plasmas

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Magnetic reconnection and the lowest energy state

Earth, Planets and Space volume 53, pages 411–415 (2001)Cite this article

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Parker, E.N. Magnetic reconnection and the lowest energy state. Earth Planet Sp 53, 411–415 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1186/BF03353250

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