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Negative atomic hydrogen ions have been directly observed to exist at the heads of striations in discharges in water vapor. The ions appear to form surprisingly readily in these regions of high density of slow electrons, but they are lost very easily by collision.
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Bennett et al. (1936) studied this question.
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