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Electrical breakdown of mercury vapour below the Paschen minimum

P C Johnson and A B Parker

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Using plane parallel stainless steel electrodes, the Paschen curve for mercury vapour has been investigated up to 10 kV. The curve is found to contain a complex re-entrant section between 1 and 8 kV thus confirming the results of Guseva and Klyarfel'd in 1954. These results are not in agreement with recent work by Hackam in 1969.


PACS

52.80.Hc Glow; corona

Subjects

Plasma physics

Dates

Issue 10 (October 1970)

Received 5 August 1970



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