Production of neon and helium by the electric discharge: J. N. Collie and H. S. Patterson and I. Masson. (Roy. Soc. Proc., Ser. A, xci, 30)
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1915
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 68 KB
- Volume
- 179
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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✦ Synopsis
Set. A, xci, 3o.)--Elaborate tests have been made with special forms ~K discharge tube. A few of these are described with the aid of diagrams. A great many of the experiments yielded negative results, for as yet unexplained reasons. Tentative suggestions are made as ~o why Strutt's work proved unsuccessful, and it is noted that Strutt's results are in opposition not only to many of the results obtained by the present authors, but also to those of J. J. Thompson, which appear substantially to corroborate the authors' results by an independent method. Although the source of the helium and neon has .not been as yet discovered, it appears, from careful experiments now made, fairly certain that these gases were not previously contained ~n the materials of the tubes: and other experiments show that permeation from the air through the walls of the discharge tubes appears to be equally improbable.