WHEN an electric glow discharge is passed through a tube containing air at pressures of the order of 5 cm. of mercury, the tube lying in one of the two beams in a Jamin's refractometric arrangement, ...

Many technologies rely on electric discharge phenomena, including consumer electronics, medical devices, and high-voltage power systems. During product development, it is highly beneficial to simulate ...

The difference between static discharge and continuous current is explained. Introduction to Electric Current: The difference between static discharge and continuous current is explained. Sources of ...

THE earliest industrial applications of the phenomena associated with strongly ionized gases, or ‘gaseous conductors’, appear to have been the introduction in England of the carbon arc for ...