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IN the Bakerian lecture on “The Discharge of Electricity through Gases,” in the last number of the Proceedings of the Royal Society, Prof. Schuster says:—“I do not see how the insulating power of air at the ordinary temperature is consistent with the presence of ions, however few in number, for ultimately a diffusion to the electrodes and a discharge would necessarily take place. This seems to me to be fatal to J. J. Thomson's view of the disruptive discharge.”
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THOMSON, J. The Discharge of Electricity through Gases. Nature 42, 295 (1890). https://doi.org/10.1038/042295c0
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