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the breakup of long, thin reconnecting current sheets into chains of magnetic islands, which makes reconnection fast and nearly independent of resistivity.

In space physics, plasmoid instability refers to the breakup of long, thin reconnecting current sheets into chains of magnetic islands, which makes reconnection fast and nearly independent of resistivity. This meaning comes from Loureiro (2007) in Physics of Plasmas.[1]

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Loureiro, N. F., Schekochihin, A. A., & Cowley, S. C. (2007). Instability of current sheets and formation of plasmoid chains. Physics of Plasmas, 14(10). https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2783986

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