It is shown that that the Towsend formula for uniform spark breakdown gives better agreement with experimental sparking data in air than another empirical formula. This has the added advantage that the constants in the Townsend formula have direct physical meaning.
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A. E. D. HEYLEN (1973) studied this question.
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