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Re: glass vacume gaps



Subject: 
        Re: glass vacume gaps
  Date: 
        Sat, 12 Apr 1997 00:09:53 -0400 (EDT)
  From: 
        richard hull <rhull-at-richmond.infi-dot-net>
    To: 
        Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>


At 06:59 PM 4/10/97 -0500, you wrote:
>Subject: 
>        Re: glass vacume gaps
>  Date: 
>        Mon, 07 Apr 1997 22:48:08 -0400
>  From: 
>        Chris Francis <cfrancis-at-infinet-dot-com>
>    To: 
>        Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
>
>

>Could high voltage flowing thru a vaccume create X rays?
>
>
Chris,  

It could provided that electrons were emitted in some fashion from one
of
the electrodes. (thermionic, high field emission, photoelectric, etc.) 
When
this does happen, it always occurs at the negative electrode.  The anode
or
(+) electrode material is important to the emission as well as the
actual
voltage across the tube.

Richard Hull, TCBOR