It is shown that under certain conditions hydrostatic equilibrium becomes unstable in a conducting medium in the presence of a magnetic field containing a neutral point if the gas pressure is less than a limiting value.The motion resulting from breakdown of hydrostatic equilibrium in the solar chromosphere above complex sunspot groups could produce solar flares and cosmic ray particles.
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