Abstract
Although the arc is the oldest example of an electric discharge that can be maintained for an arbitrary long time, the properties of chief interest for spectrochemistry bear a closer relation to the essential features of a furnace than to discharge phenomena. This fact, at first sight, is curious and will be examined in the following sections.
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© 1966 P. W. J. M. Boumans
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Boumans, P.W.J.M. (1966). Thermal Equilibrium in the Carbon Arc. In: Theory of Spectrochemical Excitation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-8428-1_5
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