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Effect of Gas Flow on the Properties of a Plasma Column

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THIS communication describes some effects of gas flow on the properties of a weakly ionized d.c. discharge in argon at pressures of 2–30 mm mercury, with discharge currents of 15–200 m.amp, and gas flow velocities ranging from zero to 1.5 × 104 cm/sec, corresponding to a Mach number approximately 0.5.

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  1. Department of Physics and Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

    KENNETH W. GENTLE, UNO INGARD & GEORGE BEKEFI

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GENTLE, K., INGARD, U. & BEKEFI, G. Effect of Gas Flow on the Properties of a Plasma Column. Nature 203, 1369–1370 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2031369a0

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