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EXPERIMENTS carried out in this Laboratory have suggested that the movement of an arc between metal electrodes in a transverse magnetic field is determined by the motion of the cathode root.
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SECKER, P., GUILE, A. Magnetic Deflexion of Arcs. Nature 181, 1615–1616 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1811615a0
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