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Definition of Brush discharge
1. Noun. Discharge between electrodes creating visible streamers of ionized particles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Brush Discharge
Literary usage of Brush discharge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1906)
"All the preceding effects point to the conclusion that a brush discharge is first
formed in each case, and this weakens the resistance to disruptive ..."
2. Transactions of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers by American Institute of Electrical Engineers (1899)
"Representing then the length of the brush discharge by ,f, with constant D, d,
and V, g0 decreases with increasing s, reaches a minimum and then increases ..."
3. A Treatise on the Law of Telegraph and Telephone Companies: Including by Sidney Walter Jones (1916)
"brush discharge.—It is the duty of electrical companies to exercise proper care
in insulating and otherwise protecting their wires so that danger will be ..."
4. The Elements of Physics: A College Text-book by Edward Leamington Nichols, William Suddards Franklin (1896)
"The brush discharge. — The discharge in air from an isolated conductor, which is
charged up to the limit set by the electric strength of the air (see Art. ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"The theories to account for the action were then considered. 6. Experiment* ivith
the brush discharge. By EH COOK, D.Sc. Land., Clifton Laboratory, Bristol. ..."
6. Chambers's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1864)
"This ia one form of what is nailed the brush discharge. ... The brush discharge,
though apparently continuous, has been found by Wheatstone to consist of a ..."
7. Notes on Recent Researches in Electricity and Magnetism: Intended as a by Joseph John Thomson, James Clerk Maxwell (1893)
"The brush discharge is also intermittent, and since the positive brush requires a
... In the brush discharge the electricity seems to be carried partly by ..."