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Influence of a Vacuum on Electricity

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THE theory of Prof. Edlund that a perfect vacuum is a perfect conductor of electricity, but that a discharge across such a vacuum between two electrodes is prevented by an electromotive force at the surface of the electrode, involves our attributing to the vacuum the property of screening from electrical influence any body which it envelops. If the vacuum be a conductor, what we call induction cannot take place through it.

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WORTHINGTON, A. Influence of a Vacuum on Electricity. Nature 27, 434 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027434a0

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