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Re: low pressure electrical breakdown



At 15:55 9/24/98 -0700, you wrote:
Dear all,

Does anyone happen to know of a reference giving the breakdown field and/or
breakdown voltage of air as a function of pressure, between 1 atm and
vacuum?
....
--James McLean

You would do well to start at Jim Lux's URL:
http://home.earthlink.net/~jinlux/hv/hvmain.htm

But you could take a glance at these...


Standard Handbook for Engineers 9th Ed. A.E. Knowlton McGraw-Hill
sec 4 para 578 et seq.

Conduction of Electricity through Gases
J.J. & G.P Thomson Cambridge U.Press


Meek, J. M. and Craggs, J. D., "Electrical Breakdown of Gases", The
International
Series of Monographs on Physics, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1953, pg.
82, 83,
96, 98-100.



brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK