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MASON1 has shown that the short-time electric strength of polythene and other solid insulating materials may have an average value many times less than the intrinsic breakdown stress, because of the distortion of the field and the high local stress at the ends of discharges. Still to be explained, however, is the steepness of the breakdown voltage/time characteristic for 50 c./s. stresses of a few seconds duration.
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Mason, J. H., Inst. Elect. Eng. Monograph No. 127, (April 1955).
Muller, U., Wiss.Z. Tech. Hoschsch., (Dresden), 4, No. 4, 629 (1954–55).
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BAKER, W. Electric-breakdown Tracks in ‘Perspex’. Nature 177, 886–887 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177886a0
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