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Current limitation in mercury vapour discharges

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This thesis constitutes a study of the current limitation phenomenon of a low pressure arc discharge in mercury vapour.

A new theory is presented which provides a theoretical relation between the D.C. current limit, IL and the independent discharge parameters of gas density p and tube radius r0. This theory is based on the fact that arc existence is impossible for values of the lumped parameter (pr) less than a critical value.

If at I = 0, p = p0 , where...

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University of Oxford
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DPhil
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Doctoral
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University of Oxford


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2017-10-05
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