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- In electricity: Direct-current circuits
The simplest direct-current (DC) circuit consists of a resistor connected across a source of electromotive force. The symbol for a resistor is shown in Figure 15; here the value of R, 60Ω, is given by the numerical value adjacent to the symbol. The…
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- In mass spectrometry: Direct-current arc
Historically this was the first way of producing a beam of ions and came quite naturally out of the 19th-century experiments for observing the passage of electricity in gases at low pressure. Two planar electrodes oriented perpendicular to the axis of the electric…
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