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The light pulses emitted before the electrical breakdown of a liquid dielectric have been detected with a photomultiplier and their characteristic shapes recorded. The times to the first recorded light pulses have been statistically analysed to relate the hitherto theoretically derived statistical and formative breakdown times to actual measurements of prebreakdown phenomena.
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Palmer et al. (1972) studied this question.
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