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DURING the last fifty years many physicists have been occupied in studying problems connected with electric currents in gases. The earlier work was principally confined to experimental investigations of the general outlines of the phenomena which occur in discharges obtained with high potentials. The large number of complicated and surprising properties of gases which were thus discovered naturally attracted much attention, and it is very interesting to read the accounts of the first experiments of the discharges in air and through vacuum tubes which were written before any special investigations of the theory of the conductivity were undertaken.
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TOWNSEND, J. Ionisation of Gases. Nature 104, 233–234 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/104233a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/104233a0