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IT is the object of this communication to give a preliminary account of certain investigations of the Rosenblum-type spark counter for α-particles. In the course of this work it has been shown that the original wire-plate arrangement1 is a particular case of a more general type of counter in which the anode is a fine wire and the cathode may be convex, planar or concave with respect to the anode, all these counters operating in air at atmospheric pressure, with electrode separations of the order of 1 mm.
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CONNOR, R. Properties Of The α-Particle Spark Counter. Nature 163, 540–541 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163540a0
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