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THE important differences in the behaviour of slow and fast counters noticed by Trost1 and others2,3 have led several workers to investigate, in a preliminary manner, the factors which prevent the discharge, developed near the path of the incident primary particle, from spreading along a counter, or from one counter to another enclosed within the same envelope. The experiments of Stever4, Wilkening and Kanne5, Ramsey6 and Curran and Strothers7, and others are well known. Hill and Dunworth8 have recently reported results on the velocity of discharge spread.
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CRAGGS, J., JAFFE, A. Spread of Discharge in Geiger Counters. Nature 159, 369–370 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159369a0
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