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solar wind

streams of ionized gas particles constantly emitted by the sun in all directions at speeds of c. 300 to 1,000 km per second (c. 186 to 620 mi per second)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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