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Unlike classical diffusion that scales inversely as the square of the magnetic field strength, it is quite usual that transport especially in laboratory plasma in not by classical mechanisms, instead it is a rapid diffusion and then loss of plasma particles across magnetic field lines that scales inversely with the magnetic field strength. In this work, by the simple set of single-fluid magnetohydrodynamic (mhd) equations applied for fully ionized plasma in steady state, the empirical bohm diffusion and time are extracted.