A HIGH potential laboratory has been developed at the Cavendish Laboratory for the study of the properties of high speed positive ions. The potential from a high voltage transformer is rectified and multiplied four times by a special arrangement of rectifiers and condensers, giving a working steady potential of 800 kilovolts. Currents of the order of a milliampere may be obtained at a potential constant to 1–2 per cent.
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COCKCROFT, J., WALTON, E. Artificial Production of Fast Protons. Nature 129, 242 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129242a0
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