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The Penning effect has been confirmed in a neon-sodium gas-vapor mixture. An apparatus and method are described for performing an experiment demonstrating a lowering of the discharge ignition voltage in a neon lamp caused by introducing sodium into its envelope.
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Moldovan State Pedagogical Institute. Translated from Izvestiya Vysshikh Zavedenii, Fizika, No. 4, pp. 98–101, April, 1997.
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Sveshnikov, V.K. Demonstration of the penning effect. Russ Phys J 40, 401–404 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02508866
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02508866