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What is a corona?

What is a corona? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
  2. (astronomy) The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun or other star, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse,
  3. (biology) Any crown-like appendage of a plant or animal.
  4. (electricity) corona discharge
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The ion mobility cell is doped with ions produced by a corona discharge ionisation source.
He discovered that power lines produce electrically charged particles called corona ions.
But the hotter hydrogen in the chromosphere and corona above it is madly emitting at the same wavelength.
The internal capsule and corona radiata have been exposed by removal of the corpus callosum, caudate nucleus, and diencephalon.
An X-ray telescope filters out all the light from the Sun except X rays, and what is left is mostly the solar corona.
The hood of the truck blazed with dazzling corona discharges and St. Elmo's fire coruscated around the headlamps and other metal fixtures.

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