Low-Voltage Arc
The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.
Low-Voltage Arc
an arc discharge with artificial cathode heating; the arc burns stably at low voltages between the electrodes—for example, in potassium and sodium vapors, as low as 0.5 volt. (SeeARC DISCHARGE: Non-self-sustaining arc discharge.)
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