Development of Spark in Air from a Negative Point
- 1 June 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Journal of Applied Physics
- Vol. 42 (7) , 2839-2847
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1660636
Abstract
An old phenomenon used as a new detecting and diagnostic technique has been applied to the study of the voltage breakdown of air between a point cathode and a positive plane. ``Feathers'' were found to propagate at velocities almost 5% of the velocity of light. When they approach the positive plane, they produce ``retrograde streamers'' that bridge the gap and eventually lead to the completion of a plasma channel of high conductivity.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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