Post-arc Conductivity and Metastable States in Mercury
- 1 December 1927
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review B
- Vol. 30 (6), 848-863
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.30.848
Abstract
A mercury arc, excited between an anode and a Wehnelt cathode, was interrupted by a relay run by a rotating commutator. By means of a second relay run by the same commutator galvanometric current measurements could be made at any instant before or after the arc was interrupted.Keywords
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