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MANY hypotheses have been put forward attempting to explain the initiation of electrical breakdown between metallic electrodes insulated by high vacuum1. Of these, several depend on the removal of a loosely attached aggregate of material (a clump) from one of the electrodes2,3. Attempts to prove the existence of clumps in a vacuum gap have already been reviewed4.
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HAWLEY, R., LOY, B. & CRAIK, R. Phenomena occurring at Electrically Stressed Metallic Surfaces in Long Gaps in Vacuum. Nature 197, 274–275 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/197274a0
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