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With the use of recent values of Townsend's α in dry air, ionization current multiplication in a non-uniform electric field has been computed. Good agreement is obtained between computed values and Johnson's experiments for E max / p >or=250 (where E max is the maximum electric field in the gap).
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Rajapandyan et al. (1972) studied this question.
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