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WHEN a liquid air trap is maintained in a gas subject to an electrodeless discharge, condensible products are frequently formed, and these are often recondensible over long periods. With hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, in well baked-out apparatus such products are formed. They have been variously attributed to atomic modifications, ozone, active nitrogen, and the like. Doubtless such modifications may be formed and be condensed in the liquid air traps, but in cases where repeated recondensations can be effected, such hypotheses cannot be readily adopted. So far as I know, no attempt has been made to find out whether these products are not simply water, carbon dioxide, or oxides of nitrogen. The lack of such an attempt arises apparently from the fact that in a discharge in pure hydrogen there is no obvious source of oxygen, and so on.
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TAYLOR, J. Condensible Gas Modifications formed under the Influence of Electrodeless Discharges . Nature 122, 347 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122347a0
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