Corona discharge
From Mass Spec Terms
| IUPAC RECOMMENDATIONS 2013 |
| Corona discharge |
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| Electric discharge generated in a gas, usually at atmospheric pressure, surrounding a conductor carrying a sufficiently high potential that the electric field around it ionizes the gas so as to form a plasma in the immediate vicinity of the conductor without causing complete electric breakdown or arcing.
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| Related Term(s): glow discharge ionization |
| Reference(s):
F. W. Peek. Dielectric Phenomena in High-Voltage Engineering, McGraw-Hill (1929). |
| From Definitions of Terms Relating to Mass Spectrometry (IUPAC Recommendations 2013); DOI: 10.1351/PAC-REC-06-04-06 © IUPAC 2013. |
