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--Previous Message-- Hello Brandon, Deionized water is an excellent dielectric... for short pulses. The breakdown behavior of water is actually fairly complex, time dependent, and also a function of the polarity of the electric field (in a non-uniform field gap) and the area of the electrodes. Fortunately, there are a few simple "rules of thumb" that seem to hold for a variety of dielectric fluids. These were developed by one of the master researchers on high voltage pulse techniques - J. C. (Charlie) Martin. And, you are in luck - for now, one of his classic papers that discusses this, and many other interesting areas as well, is availabe for FREE download from the IEEE. See: Happy reading! -- Bert --
: Does anyone know where I could find information regarding the dielectric
: strength of aqueous solutions? I have been told that in using water as a
: dielectric, you must concerned about two things happening. The first being
: that if too high of a voltage is applied, the molecules of water will start
: to split apart. The second being dielectric breakdown when the electric
: field gets to be too high, and electrons are jump across the dielectric?
: Or at least this is what seems to be correct to me. Is this is true? And
: if anyone happened to know where I could referencable data on the breakdown
: characteristics of water, I would greatly appreciate it.
: Thanks
: Brandon Johns
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http://www.ieee.org/portal/cms_docs/pubs/proceedings/ClassicNanoPaper.pdf
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