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THE persistence of luminosity after the interruption of an electrical discharge in certain gases at low pressures has often been observed, and the experiments on active nitrogen by Lord Rayleigh, and others1,2, are well known. Dorgelo and Washington3 have measured the persistence of metastable states in helium, neon and argon ; Kenty4, and Mohler5, have studied the effect of electronic recombination in the afterglow.
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MEEK, J., CRAGGS, J. Afterglow in High-Pressure Gaseous Discharges. Nature 152, 538–539 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152538b0
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