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Spark gap   /spɑrk gæp/   Listen
Spark gap

noun
1.
A component of an ignition system; consists of two shaped electrodes and the space between them.
2.
The gap between two high-potential terminals.





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"Spark gap" Quotes from Famous Books



... certain precautions are necessary. When he uses tin-foil electrodes on the outside of the bulb, he protects the tin-foil edges, and, what is more essential, uses extremely small Leyden jars and a short spark gap between the poles of the discharging rods. The philosophy of this is, that the smaller the jars, the greater their number of oscillations per second (easily fifteen million, according to Dr. Lodge's computations), the shorter the wave length, and, therefore, the greater ...
— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 • Various


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