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Re: Capacitor charge, were is it?



On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Tesla List wrote:

> 
> The vacuum diode conducts in one direction only because the plate is charged 
> positively and the electrons are charged negatively.  If the vacuum were not 
> a conductor, no electrons would flow in either direction.  Make sense?
> 
Vacuum is not a conductor in the usual sense.(Meaning the electrons jump
from one atom to another...  At least, that's how one of my electronics
books explains it...)  You see, for electrons to travel through the
vaccum, they must be thrown off the conductor by heat.  Which is why
vacuum tube diodes(and all vacuum tubes, for that matter) have a heater in
them.  TTYL!


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