On the relation between current, voltage, pressure, and the length of the dark space in different gases

Abstract

Abstract In a previous communication by one of us* the result of a number of experiments on the relation between current, voltage, pressure, and the length of the dark space were given for thew gases hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, and air. The first part of the present paper consists of a continuation of that communication giving the results obtained with carbon monoxide, argon, and helium, together with some constants for these and the gases previously mentioned which were not published at that time. The second part deals with a systematic investigation of the behaviour of the inactive gases when in a state of great purity.