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Silver Bubbles and Films

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IT may be of interest to record a phenomenon observed in the course of an experiment on the properties of ‘sputtered’ silver films. On the passage of a discharge through the sputtering tube, it was noticed that numerous ‘globules’ of varying sizes—some transparent, others iridescent—made their appearance on the walls of the vessel.

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BARBER, D. Silver Bubbles and Films. Nature 122, 55–56 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122055a0

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