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I am currently an electrical engineering student and I am looking into gas discharge and was curious about it's properties and newer uses it could have in the world. Now as to the question of current. The reason I didn't choose one in particular is because I wasn't aware of how precise a...

how would one calculate the number of ions produced per square centimeter when a continuous electrical arc is being produced between two electrodes that are separated by a meter, end in a fine point and have a voltage of 3.4 Mv? assuming standard air temperature and pressure.