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EXPERIMENTS in progress here show a systematic increase in the dielectric strength of pure organic liquids as the duration of the pulse of voltage is decreased. In other words, between the instant of applying a field and the instant of breakdown there is a time-delay which becomes less as the field-strength is raised above the normal breakdown value. A suggestion of this delay can be seen in the early oscillograms of Rogowski, Flegler and Tamm1.
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Rogowski, Flegler and Tamm, Archiv für Elektrotechnik, 18, 479 (1927).
Fröhlich, H., Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 188, 521 (1947).
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MACFADYEN, K., EDWARDS, W. Dielectric Strength of Liquids for Short Pulses of Voltage. Nature 163, 171–172 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163171b0
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