Townsend discharge

短语

[电] 汤生放电

词形变化

Townsend discharges 复数 Townsend discharges

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A gas ionization process where free electrons, accelerated by a sufficiently strong electric field, give rise to electrical conduction through a gas by avalanche multiplication caused by the ionization of molecules by ion impact.

词源

Named after John Sealy Townsend, who discovered the fundamental mechanism.

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