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High-voltage engineering

condition that a gas gap breaks down when secondary emission replaces each starting electron, linking ionization coefficients and gap length.

In high-voltage engineering, Townsend breakdown criterion refers to condition that a gas gap breaks down when secondary emission replaces each starting electron, linking ionization coefficients and gap length. This meaning comes from Townsend (1910) in The theory of ionization of gases by collision.[1]

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References

Townsend, J. (1910). The theory of ionization of gases by collision. Constable. https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.22810

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