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BEAMS1 has brought forward experimental evidence showing that the application of a field of the order of 5 × 106 volts per cm. to a tungsten surface may result in the direct removal of adsorbed positive ions of the alkali metals. Ianitsky2 had previously described experiments in which such an effect was obtained with fields about a hundred times smaller, the positive ions concerned being those of the permanent gases.
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Phys. Rev., 41, 687; 1932.
J. Phys., 1, 153; 1930.
Described in the October issue of the Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc.; 1932.
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HARPER, W. Emission of Positive Ions from Gold Surfaces under the Influence of Strong Electric Fields. Nature 130, 775 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130775a0
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