glow-discharge microphone

glow-discharge microphone

[¦glō ¦dis‚chärj ′mī·krə‚fōn]

(engineering acoustics)

Microphone in which the action of sound waves on the current forming a glow discharge between two electrodes causes corresponding variations in the current.

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