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Some investigations of gas discharges by means of an exploring electrode

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

K. G. Emeléus
K. G. Emeléus
Affiliation:
St John's College
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The glow discharge between cold aluminium electrodes in air, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen has been analyzed by Langmuir's method, for pressures between 0·1 and 0·4 mm. Hg, current densities of from 0·02 to 0·2 mA./sq.cm., and applied potentials between 300 and 700 volts. An annular exploring electrode has been used. It has been found that whilst practically the whole fall of potential is localized across the cathode dark space at the lower pressures, a fall of as much as 40 volts can exist across the remainder of the discharge at the higher pressures. Reversal of the electric field has been found in the negative glow, and in certain cases in the Faraday dark space, when conditions are favourable for passage of an electron current by diffusion against the field. In several instances the negative glow was at a higher potential than the anode. Two groups of electrons occur in the negative glow, together with a single fast group at the anode boundary of the cathode dark space, and a single slow group in the Faraday dark space.

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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 23 , Issue 5 , January 1927 , pp. 531 - 541
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1927

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