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RECENTLY, we have conducted experiments on the electric discharge through gases at very low pressures with alternating potentials of about 4 × 107 cycles per sec. (7 metre wave). Results were obtained with mercury at pressures of the order of 10-3 mm. in a bulb 20 cm. diameter with neck of 2 cm. diameter, and external copper-foil wrappings as electrodes on the neck, and showed that the discharge could take two distinct forms as shown in the accompanying photographs.
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TAYLOR, J., TAYLOR, W. A New Form of the High Frequency Electric Discharge. Nature 121, 171–172 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121171b0
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