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Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Mekhaniki i Tekhnicheskoi Fiziki, No. 2, pp. 14–24, March–April, 1978.
The authors thank G. G. Vilenskaya, who performed the numerical calculations.
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Medvedev, Y.A., Stepanov, B.M., Fedorovich, G.V. et al. Disturbance of the geoelectric field through ionization of air by a pulsed source of gamma radiation. J Appl Mech Tech Phys 19, 156–163 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00850025
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