Abstract: Disclosed is a closed drift, narrow channel Hall thruster configured to operate at powers <30 W. The thruster includes a thruster body and a neutralizing cathode. The thruster body includes a magnetic circuit including a magnetic source and two magnetic poles, a metallic, annular thruster channel formed by the magnetic poles with a downstream channel width smaller than about 3 mm and an upstream channel width greater than the downstream channel width, an anode positioned at the channel's entry, and a gas distributor configured to release a propellant gas into the thruster channel. The magnetic circuit is configured to generate a magnetic field in the thruster channel for trapping electrons therein. The channel walls (the magnetic poles) are under bias potential. The anode and the cathode are configured to generate a substantially axial electric field in the thruster channel.

Abstract: Disclosed is a closed drift, narrow channel Hall thruster configured to operate at powers <30 W. The thruster includes a thruster body and a neutralizing cathode. The thruster body includes a magnetic circuit including a magnetic source and two magnetic poles, a metallic, annular thruster channel formed by the magnetic poles with a downstream channel width smaller than about 3 mm and an upstream channel width greater than the downstream channel width, an anode positioned at the channel's entry, and a gas distributor configured to release a propellant gas into the thruster channel. The magnetic circuit is configured to generate a magnetic field in the thruster channel for trapping electrons therein. The channel walls (the magnetic poles) are under bias potential. The anode and the cathode are configured to generate a substantially axial electric field in the thruster channel.

Abstract: A process for producing reagents useful in organic synthesis, of the general formula ##SPC1##WhereinZ designates the ##EQU1## part of a polymeric backbone of a polymer like polystyrene, a copolymer comprising polystyrene and a comonomer like divinylbenzene, butadiene, and other copolymers comprising styrene, or wherein Z designates the aliphatic moiety of a long-chain aralkyl compound having a terminal phenyl moiety;n is an integer from 1 to 8, inclusive;R designates oxygen or sulfur;X designates nitro, carbonyl, carboxyl, cyano-carbalkoxy or a carboxamido group which may be substituted on the nitrogen atom, or a halogen atom, or alkyl, unsaturated alkyl, aralkyl;RH and X together designate hydroxytriazole; which comprises reacting a compound of the general formula ##SPC2##Wherein Y designates --Cl, --Br, or --OH and X and R are as defined above, with a polystyrene polymer or with a copolymer as defined above, or with a long-chain araliphatic compound as defined above, in a Friedel-Crafts reaction.