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An experiment has been done in which the electrodes of a vacuum gap were operated at widely different temperatures over a range 4 to 300 K. The temperatures of both the anode and cathode were found to affect the prebreakdown current and breakdown voltage of a 0·8 mm uniform field gap between niobium electrodes of industrial surface finish.
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D.A. Swift (1972) studied this question.
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