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The dispersion relation of an infinite form of these substances is modeled by the letters X, O, R, and L in the CMA diagram. When certain particles are “warm”, a term of 3 k-squared thermal speed squared (10[1])appears in the Bohm–Gross dispersion relation of these substances. The term [read slowly] “two over the thermal de Broglie wavelength cubed” appears in an equation describing these substances named for Meghnad (10[1])Saha. Discovering low-frequency oscillations in these substances won Hannes Alfvén (10[2])(“all-VANE”) the 1970 Nobel Prize (-5[1])in Physics, who described these substances using MHD. The (10[2])Debye (“duh-BYE”) length measures how well electric fields are screened in (-5[1])these substances, which are confined by a (10[1])tokamak’s magnetic field in a potential fusion reactor design. For 10 points, name this high-energy fourth state of (10[3])matter. ■END■

ANSWER: plasmas [accept plasma waves; accept infinite plasmas]
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