Download or read book Conduction of Electricity Through Gases: Volume 2, Ionisation by Collision and the Gaseous Discharge written by J. J. Thomson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-13 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1933 volume is the second of two books making up the third edition of a 1903 original by British physicist Sir Joseph John Thomson. The text was greatly enlarged for this edition, which resulted in its division into two parts, and incorporates numerous advances in research relating to the discharge of electricity through gases.