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Influence of moisture on the properties of long streamers in air

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A simulation has shown that the suppression of streamer propagation with increasing air moisture content discussed repeatedly in the literature is caused by accelerated electron-ion recombination rather than by the kinetics of the negative ions, as was previously assumed.

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  1. Moscow Physicotechnical Institute, Moscow

    N. L. Aleksandrov, É. M. Bazelyan & D. A. Novitskii

  2. G. M. Krzhizhanovskii Power Institute, Moscow

    N. L. Aleksandrov, É. M. Bazelyan & D. A. Novitskii

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Pis’ma Zh. Tekh. Fiz. 24, 86–91 (May 12, 1998)

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Aleksandrov, N.L., Bazelyan, É.M. & Novitskii, D.A. Influence of moisture on the properties of long streamers in air. Tech. Phys. Lett. 24, 367–368 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1262125

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