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  2. Corona ring - Wikipedia

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    Corona discharge is a leakage of electric current into the air adjacent to high voltage conductors. It is sometimes visible as a dim blue glow in the air next to sharp points on high voltage equipment.

  3. Glow discharge - Wikipedia

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    A glow discharge is a plasma formed by the passage of electric current through a gas. It is often created by applying a voltage between two electrodes in a glass tube ...

  4. Corona discharge - Wikipedia

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    A corona discharge is an electrical discharge caused by the ionization of a fluid such as air surrounding a conductor carrying a high voltage. It represents a local region where the air (or other fluid) has undergone electrical breakdown and become conductive, allowing charge to continuously leak off the conductor into the air.

  5. Electric discharge in gases - Wikipedia

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    The A-D region is called a dark discharge; there is some ionization, but the current is below 10 microamperes and there is no significant amount of radiation produced. The F-H region is a region of glow discharge; the plasma emits a faint glow that occupies almost all the volume of the tube; most of the light is emitted by excited neutral atoms.

  6. Shock diamond - Wikipedia

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    Shock diamonds are the bright areas seen in the exhaust of this statically mounted Pratt & Whitney J58 engine on full afterburner.. Shock diamonds (also known as Mach diamonds or thrust diamonds, and less commonly Mach disks) are a formation of standing wave patterns that appear in the supersonic exhaust plume of an aerospace propulsion system, such as a supersonic jet engine, rocket, ramjet ...

  7. Ionization instability - Wikipedia

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    A glow discharge is a plasma-containing apparatus in which the plasma is formed by a large voltage placed across a rarefied gas. Glow discharges are used for electric lighting and materials processing. In a glow discharge, ionization instability takes the form of striations, [1] or bands of enhanced and suppressed light production. The distance ...

  8. File:Glow discharge regions.jpg - Wikipedia

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    English: A classic glow discharge in a Crookes tube, a glass gas discharge tube evacuated to a pressure of around 10-5 - 10-6 torr, with a metal electrode inside at either end. The glow is due to a voltage of several thousand volts applied between the electrodes, which causes the gas inside the tube to ionize, allowing a current to pass through it.

  9. Automotive battery - Wikipedia

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    A typical 12 V, 40 Ah lead-acid car battery. An automotive battery, or car battery, is a rechargeable battery that is used to start a motor vehicle.. Its main purpose is to provide an electric current to the electric-powered starting motor, which in turn starts the chemically-powered internal combustion engine that actually propels the vehicle.