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IT has been observed that the inner conductor of a coaxial line tuned to frequencies near 1,000 megacycles which projects into an arc discharge in mercury vapour can be excited by the discharge if a bar magnet is brought near the tube. Both a thermionic tube and a mercury pool tube showed this behaviour.
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THONEMANN, P., KING, R. Production of High-Frequency Energy by an Ionized Gas. Nature 158, 414 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158414a0
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