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    length product (right) is called Paschen's curve. He found an equation that fit these curves, which is now called Paschen's law. At higher pressures and gap...
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  • presence of a strong magnetic field Paschen series, a Hydrogen spectral series in the infrared band Paschen's law, an equation that gives the breakdown...
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  • conductive channels. For gases it increases with pressure according to Paschen's law For air, dielectric strength increases slightly as the absolute humidity...
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    Paschen (22 January 1865 - 25 February 1947), was a German physicist, known for his work on electrical discharges. He is also known for the Paschen series...
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    conducting states is governed by Paschen's law. At typical pressure and electrode distance combinations, Paschen's law says that Townsend discharge will...
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    short circuit. In a gas, the breakdown voltage can be determined by Paschen's law. The breakdown voltage in a partial vacuum is represented as V b = B...
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    electrodes—is referred to as Paschen's law. For a range of gas molecules, the breakdown voltage estimated by Paschen's law has a minimum value of around...
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    Wien acknowledges Friedrich Paschen in his original paper as having supplied him with the same formula based on Paschen's experimental observations. The...
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    discharges from charged objects that are charged to as little as 380 V (Paschen's law). Earth's atmosphere consists of 21% oxygen (O2) and 78% nitrogen (N2)...
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    transmitter List of light sources Marx generator Spark gap Vacuum arc Paschen's law "The Arc Species "Zoo"". Arc Suppression Technologies. 15 December 2020...
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    voltage that leads to electrical breakdown of a gas is approximated by Paschen's Law. Partial discharge in air causes the "fresh air" smell of ozone during...
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    moon Io. Airglow Aurora (heraldry) Heliophysics List of solar storms Paschen's law Space tornado Space weather Modern style guides recommend that the names...
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    breakdown voltage of the gas inside (voltage needed to start an arc – Paschen's law), which is outside the capabilities of the ballast. Because of this...
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    hydrogen. Named after the German physicist Friedrich Paschen who first observed them in 1908. The Paschen lines all lie in the infrared band. This series overlaps...
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    materials such as certain plastics. Corona discharge Electrical breakdown Paschen's law Static electricity Faraday, Experimental Researches in Electricity,...
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    conductivity of air increases as atmospheric pressure reduces according to Paschen's law) using various techniques: high voltage electric arc discharge, RF (microwaves)...
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  • lamps, and more. Eichhorn, H.; Schoenbach, K. H.; Tessnow, T. (1993). "Paschen's law for a hollow cathode discharge" (PDF). Applied Physics Letters. 63 (18):...
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    composition and electrode distance; the dependencies are described by Paschen's law. The gas pressure may range between 0.001 and 1,000 Torr (0.13–130,000 Pa);...
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    chamber p and a characteristic dimension L of the hollow cathode obey the Paschen's law 0.5 Pa·m < p·L < 5 Pa·m. This causes a high flux of ions on the surrounding...
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  • Other kinds of Penning mixture include helium–xenon. Geiger–Müller tube Paschen's law Weston, G.F. (1968). Cold Cathode Glow Discharge Tubes. London: ILIFFE...
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  • on the product of gas pressure and electrode distance according to Paschen's law. For a certain pressure × distance value, there is a lowest breakdown...
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    breakdown Electric arc Electric discharge in gases Field electron emission Paschen's law Photoelectric effect Townsend (unit) Glenn F Knoll. Radiation Detection...
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    response function Metamaterial RC delay Rotational Brownian motion Paschen's law – variation of dielectric strength of gas related to pressure Separator...
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    Hollow cathode Eichhorn, H.; Schoenbach, K. H.; Tessnow, T. (1993). "Paschen's law for a hollow cathode discharge" (PDF). Applied Physics Letters. 63 (18):...
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    the molecules and in turn to the pressure of the gas, as explained by Paschen's Law. The discharge process causes the emission of an energetic photon, the...
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    In physics, Planck's law (also Planck radiation law: 1305 ) describes the spectral density of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a black body in thermal...
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    controls caused in the near vacuum of space as a result of phenomenon of Paschen's law in T+151 to T+152.66 seconds. 42 "The Moon God Awakens" 15 December...
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    a knob the width of the gap could be adjusted very precisely. From Paschen's law, the distance between two electrodes when a spark just jumped across...
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  • physical parameters (pressure, ignition voltage, gas constant, see Paschen's law), flexibility regarding the plasma medium is ensured. This allows the...
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  • an electromagnetic thruster for spacecraft propulsion Friedrich Paschen Paschen's law, an equation relating the breakdown voltage to the gas pressure...
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