Dependence of the statistical breakdown time-lag of a liquid dielectric on electrode geometry
- 1 February 1971
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics
- Vol. 4 (2) , 253-258
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0022-3727/4/2/310
Abstract
It is shown experimentally that the mean statistical time-lag for electric breakdown in n-hexane is inversely proportional to the area of a planar electrode system and independent of the electrode spacing. This is consistent with the conjecture that for given materials the rate of initiation of breakdowns per unit area is a unique function of stress.Keywords
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