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One of the minor irritations of my life has been the fact that while approximate calculations of the breakdown volts of practical sphere/sphere and cylinder/cylinder gaps gives reasonable agreement to 10–20 per cent, when more accurate attempts are made to compare experiment with crude theory, reality seems strangely perverse. In addition to this, for pressurised gaps the plot of breakdown voltage against pressure is significantly non-linear. This non-linearity is distinct from the one that develops about 10 to 15 atmospheres, which, amongst other things, depends on the nature of the electrodes.
AFWL Dielectric Strength Notes Note 16 30 Jun 1970
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Martin, J.C. (1996). D.C. Breakdown Voltages of Non-Uniform Gaps in Air. In: Martin, T.H., Guenther, A.H., Kristiansen, M. (eds) J. C. Martin on Pulsed Power. Advances in Pulsed Power Technology, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1561-0_11
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