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Liquid argon at 87 °K was irradiated with 1.5 MeV X-rays. Saturation currents were achieved at low dose rates. The energy required to produce an ion pair [Formula: see text] was found to be 22.5 ± 3 eV, which is similar to the gas phase value.
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Klassen et al. (1969) studied this question.
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