Electric breakdown in n-hexane

摘要

Electric breakdown and conduction in organic liquids has been the subject of reintensified investigation in recent years. But even in highly purified test liquids such as n-hexane the experimental evidence is still subject to continuous alteration and improvement. Failure to reproduce earlier measurements of breakdown strength in n-hexane led to the discovery of the importance of dissolved air or rather oxygen in the test liquid as reported earlier. The discovery prompted this investigation, which deals mostly with the effect of dissolved gases on the electric strength of n-hexane.