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Opening Electrical Contact: Boiling Metal or High-Density Plasma?

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    Present address: Scientific Research Council, Radio and Space Research Station, Datchet, Buckinghamshire

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  1. Department of Physics, University College of Swansea, University of Wales,

    F. LLEWELLYN JONES & M. J. PRICE

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JONES, F., PRICE, M. Opening Electrical Contact: Boiling Metal or High-Density Plasma?. Nature 207, 255–257 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1038/207255a0

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