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Noun Concept
Categories: All Wikipedia articles written in American English, Ion engines, All articles containing potentially dated statements, Plasma technology and applications, Magnetic propulsion devices
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ion engine  ion thruster  Electromagnetic engine  Electromagnetic ion thruster  Energy efficiency of ion thrusters
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A type of reaction-propulsion engine to propel rockets in space; a stream of positive ions is accelerated to a high velocity by an electric field WordNet 3.0
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An ion thruster, ion drive, or ion engine is a form of electric propulsion used for spacecraft propulsion. Wikipedia
Using beams of ions accelerated electrically Wikipedia Disambiguation
Electric propulsion method for spacecraft Wikidata
A type of spacecraft propulsion, whereby electric fields accelerate ions out the exhaust to provide motive force. Wiktionary