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DURING an investigation of the behaviour of electric arcs in vacuum, measurements have been made of arc voltages with various cathode materials, and photographs have been taken of cathode spot tracks on one particular material. Certain of these measurements may be relevant to phenomena occurring at the opening of low-current contacts in air.
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Germer, L. H., and Boyle, W. S., Nature, 176, 1019 (1955).
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REECE, M. Arcs in Vacuum. Nature 177, 1089–1090 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1771089b0
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