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Term: Townsend avalanche
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Definition: gas multiplication process in which a charged particle, by collision, rapidly gives rise to a large number of secondary charged particles

Note 1 to entry: This entry was numbered 394-38-37 in IEC 60050-394:2007.


Publication date:2014-03
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