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Pre-Breakdown Discharges in D.C. Positive Point to Plane Corona

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GAUNT, H., CRAGGS, J. Pre-Breakdown Discharges in D.C. Positive Point to Plane Corona. Nature 168, 859–861 (1951). https://doi.org/10.1038/168859a0

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