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PROF. MILLIKAN has recently directed attention to a remarkable property of cosmic rays, in his presidential address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at Cleveland.1 He observed that “somewhere in the atmosphere below a height of 15.5 km. the intensity of the ionisation within a closed vessel exposed to the rays goes through a maximum, and then decreases”.
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REYNOLDS, W. The Electrical Layers of the Atmosphere. Nature 127, 704 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127704a0
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