Abstract
THE Geissler tubes and Crookes tubes that were in almost every physical laboratory at the end of the last century enabled any student to observe with ease the fascinating phenomena of electric discharges in gases at low pressures. These and the newly familiar phenomena of radioactivity and X-rays made the theory of electric conduction through gases appear to be of bewildering complexity.
Conduction of Electricity through Gases.
By Sir J. J. Thomson Prof. G. P. Thomson. Third edition. Vol. 1.: General Properties of Ions; Ionization by Heat and Light. Pp. vi + 491. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1928.) 25s. net.
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LANGMUIR, I. Kinetic Theory and Electric Conduction through Gases. Nature 123, 675–676 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123675a0
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