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Electrical equipment

Any equipment that involves the controlled conduction of electrons.

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hollow cathode

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

An efficient plasma-emitting device flowing gas through a hollow orifice.

sustained arc

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

An electrical discharge that lasts much longer than the usual capacitance-discharging arc (on the order of 1 millisecond or longer).

dielectric breakdown

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

An electrical discharge within a dielectric due to an applied electric field in excess of the dielectric strength of the material.

conductor

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

An electrical path that offers comparatively little resistance. A wire or combination of wires not insulated from each other, suitable for carrying a single electric current.

ion

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

An electrified portion of matter of sub-atomic, atomic, or molecular dimensions such as is formed when a molecule of gas loses an electron (when the gas is stressed electrically ...

contaminant

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

An impurity or foreign substance present in or on a material and affecting one or more properties of the material.

paschen discharge

Electrical equipment; Power supplies

Breakdown of neutral gas in a high electric field.