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Definition of Thermionic current
1. Noun. An electric current produced between two electrodes as a result of electrons emitted by thermionic emission.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thermionic Current
Literary usage of Thermionic current
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Thermionic Valve and Its Developments in Radio-telegraphy and Telephony by John Ambrose Fleming (1919)
"Apart from the effect of such admixtures or surface coatings on the thermionic
current from a wire, we have to note the effect of the surrounding rarefied ..."
2. The Principles of Electric Wave Telegraphy and Telephony by John Ambrose Fleming (1919)
"The thermionic current or stream of electrons or negative ions proceeding from
... The thermionic current of this instrument may be made to vary the grid ..."
3. Proceedings of the IRE. by Institute of Radio Engineers (1915)
"According to this view-point, the electron emission is the same whether a thermionic
current flows or not. As the potential of the cold electrode or anode ..."
4. The Thermionic Vacuum Tube and Its Applications by Hendrik Johannes Van der Bijl (1920)
"not dependent on the structural dimensions of the device, it being understood
that the thermionic current /, is the current obtained from unit area of the ..."
5. The Emission of Electricity from Hot Bodies by Owen Willans Richardson (1916)
"In this way an expression for the thermionic current is obtained which is
practically the same as (37) and agrees satisfactorily with the experimental ..."
6. The Emission of Electricity from Hot Bodies by Owen Willans Richardson (1921)
"In this way an expression for the thermionic current is obtained which is
practically the same as (37) and agrees satisfactorily with the experimental ..."
7. Modern Electrical Theory by Norman Robert Campbell (1913)
"If the surface of platinum is not freed from the small quantity of hydrogen which
usually adheres to it, the thermionic current at very high temperatures ..."
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