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   Spark Gaps

A spark gap consists of an arrangement of two conducting electrodes separated by a gap usually filled with a gas such as air. When a suitable voltage is supplied, a spark forms, ionizing the gas and drastically reducing its electrical resistance. An electric current then flows until the path of ionized gas is broken or the current reduces below a minimum value called the 'holding current'. This usually happens when the voltage drops, but in some cases occurs when the heated gas rises, stretching out and then breaking the filament of ionized gas. Usually the action of ionizing the gas is violent and disruptive, often leading to sound (ranging from a snap for a spark plug to thunder for a lightning discharge), light and heat.



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Books
The Spark Gap
Julia Bertagna

Spark Gaps; Overvoltage Arresters Using Spark Gaps; Sparking Plugs; Corona Devices; Generating Ions To Be Introduced Into Non-enclosed Gases Patent Mapping Report
3i Analytics

Spark Discharge
Eduard M. Bazelyan and Yuri P. Raizer

Excerpt - page 2: "... pressure and above it. It is easier to initiate a spark in a gap with a strongly nonuniform distribution of the electric field between ..."
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SPARK: Be More Innovative Through Co-Creation
John Winsor

Excerpt - page 7: "... Adam. Their fingers almost touch, and many imagine an electric spark between the finger of God and man. A spark wouldn't happen if there weren't a difference between one end of the spark and the other. It's in that gap that the potential exists. So you might call that creative ..."
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Turbochargers HP49 (HP Books): Turbo Design, Sizing & Matching, Spark-Ignition & Diesel Engine Applications, Water Injection, Controls, Carburetion, Intercooling, ... Street & Race Cars, Boats, Motorcycles
Keystone Automotive - Drop Ship

Excerpt - page 66: "... ignition system is sometimes the answer when this problem occurs. Spark Plugs-Most spark-plug cleaners include a ... in the chamber increases, the gap on the spark plug must be decreased to ensure it ..."
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Twilight Time: A Soldier's Role in the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos
Ralph C. Sparks

Excerpt - page 35: "... should be used in the implosion bomb. Some felt the spark-gap detonators were better than the exploding bridgewire detonators. After much ..."
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Kinetics of Soil Chemical Processes
Donald L. Sparks

Excerpt - page 96: "... In the latter study, ion-pair formation 100M4 754 COAXIAL CABLE SPARK GAP 104 6 iy 0 4 ~ ~ 2 3 tl! ..."
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Divine Sparks: Collected Wisdom of the Heart
Karen Speerstra

Excerpt - page 248: "... good fortune or bad fortune, whether by pure chance, the spark jumping the gap because the gap was narrow enough, or by the touch ..."
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Breakdown of voltage spark gaps (Research series) (Research series)
K. R Allen

The design and construction of a spark gap assembly and associated circuits (CERN) (CERN)
L Hubbeling

The use of exploding wires in detecting spark-gap-switch de-ionization, (Arkiv foÌr fysik) (Arkiv foÌr fysik)
Antonios E VlastoÌs

The use of exploding wires in detecting spark-gap-switch de-ionization, (Arkiv för fysik)
Antonios E Vlastós

Repetitive "spark gap" switches (Pulsed power lecture series) (Pulsed power lecture series)
M. T Buttram

Parameters affecting firing time of simultaneously triggered trigatron spark gap switches (NASA technical note) (NASA technical note)
M. D Williams

Model for a low pressure spark gap (UCID) (UCID)
Edward F Lee

The theory and design of the triggered spark gap
Theodore Joseph Williams

Development of a laser-triggered spark gap (European Organization for Nuclear Research. CERN)
Felix Deutsch

Sparking voltages and gradients between spheres of unequal diameters and a theory of the sphere spark gap
Adam Pen-Tung Sah

Spark Gap
Julia Bertagna

The spark-gap switches of the new fast beam extraction system at the CERN Proton Sycnchrotron (CERN)
L Caris

Measurement of local mixture strength at spark gap of S.I. engines (SAE) (SAE)
Kazamu Matsui

The effect of electrode temperature on the sparking voltage of short spark gaps (Report / National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics) (Report / National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics)
F. B Silsbee

Theory of pulsars: Polar gaps, sparks, and coherent microwave radiation
Malvin A Ruderman

Monitoring the spark-plug gap of natural-gas-fuelled [sic] stationary engines (Society of Automotive Engineers) (Society of Automotive Engineers)
Jacob Klimstra

A Spark from Heaven? The Place of Potential in Organizational and Individual Development
Adrian W. Savage and Marshall Goldsmith

Excerpt - page 88: "... constantly urging employees to correct their faults and bridge the gaps between the ideal and reality. Strengths are ignored in the ..."
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Theorising Muriel Spark: Gender, Race, Deconstruction
Martin McQuillan

Excerpt - page 83: "... in the functional composite of imagination and memory. (p. 16) Spark's narrative matrix seems to demonstrate ... in each narrative formation. A gap exists between the house as a prosopopoeic figure to explain ..."
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The Grassfire Effect: How One Small Spark Can Change Your World
Steve Elliot

Excerpt - page 27: "... more than a combination of chemicals that require an explanatory gap to account for why you are who you are. Second, creativity and the sparks of ideas remain mysterious domains. The source of ideas lies ..."
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The Classical Mandolin (Oxford Early Music Series)
Paul Sparks

Excerpt - Front Matter: "... languages; Cisca van Heertum for heroical- ly plugging the numerous gaps in my linguistic competence; my parents, Harry and Joan Sparks, for proof-reading the manuscript; and the late Hugo d'Alton, ..."
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Percept, Decision, Action: Bridging the Gaps (CIBA Foundation Symposia Series)
Novartis Foundation

Excerpt - page 88: "... in saccade initiation: a study of express saccades and the gap effect. Vision Res 40:2763-2777 Stanford TR, Freedman EG, Sparks DL 1996 The site and parameters of microstimulation deter- mine ..."
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The People of Sparks
Jeanne Duprau

Excerpt - page 45: "... no answer for that question . Outside the settlement of Sparks, the Empty Lands stretched for miles in all directions. "They could go up to Pine Gap," said Wilmer. "Maybe. Mary snorted and shook her head. "Don't ..."
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NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis (Labor Productivity Series)
Icon Group Ltd. and Ltd. Icon Group

NGK SPARK PLUG CO., LTD.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (Financial Performance Series)
Inc Icon Group International and Ltd. Icon Group

Managing Strategic Innovation and Change: A Collection of Readings
Michael L. Tushman and Philip Anderson

Excerpt - page 4: "... continuous-wave transmission was a technological discontinuity that threatened to replace spark-gap transmission. Continuous-wave transmission initiated competition not only between this new ..."
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Three Weeks with My Brother
Nicholas Sparks and Micah Sparks

Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People
Robert S. Root-Bernstein and Michele M. Root-Bernstein

History of Wireless
Tapan K. Sarkar, Robert Mailloux, Arthur A. Oliner, and Magdalena Salazar-Palma

Excerpt - page 18: "... that ultraviolet light falling on the negative electrode in a spark gap facilitates conduction by the gas in the gap. This was ..."
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