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DISCHARGE tubes with cold electrodes and low gas pressure present a great variety of complex phenomena which, at the time of their discovery, were most difficult to explain. Many of these old difficulties remain, but some have been cleared away or are in process of being cleared away in the light of recent work. In any event, within the last few years sufficient new points of view have been put forward and fresh phenomena discovered to warrant recollection of the past and special notice of the present.
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WHIDDINGTON, R. The Discharge of Electricity through Vacuum Tubes1. Nature 116, 506–509 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116506a0
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