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Ionization in Liquid and Solid Argon

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IONIC mobilities in liquids are of the order of 10-3 cm.2/volt/sec., and ion chambers filled with liquids are therefore generally useless in connexion with pulse amplifiers. Free electrons should have a much higher mobility ; but their path before capture is extremely short in most liquids. We have been unable to detect them in carefully purified hexane. However, in condensed argon, charge carriers with a mobility greater than 40 cm.2/volt/sec. have been found, and these are undoubtedly electrons.

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HUTCHINSON, G. Ionization in Liquid and Solid Argon. Nature 162, 610–611 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162610a0

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