Townsend Discharge Definition

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A gas ionization process where free electrons, accelerated by a sufficiently strong electric field , give rise to electrical conduction through a gas by avalanche multiplication caused by the ionization of molecules by ion impact .

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Origin of Townsend Discharge

  • Named after John Sealy Townsend , who discovered the fundamental mechanism.

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