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THE very large negative ion mobility observed by Malkin and Schultz1 and by Williams2 in liquid argon (about 10 cm2/V.sec) has been interpreted as indicating the existence of free electrons in this liquid. Estimates of the elastic collision cross-section by these authors on a basis of classical kinetic theory appeared to indicate that the liquid could not be considered as a compressed gas, but a comparative study of electron drift velocity data for mixtures of gaseous argon and small concentrations of molecular impurities showed that these earlier interpretations may be in error3.
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SWAN, D. Electron Drift Velocity in Liquid Argon and Argon–Nitrogen Mixtures. Nature 196, 977–978 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/196977a0
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