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Hertz effect

American  

noun

Physics.

  1. the effect of ultraviolet radiation in lowering the sparking voltage across a spark gap: an example of photoelectric effect.

Etymology

Origin of Hertz effect

After H. R. Hertz

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Suffice it to say, in further connection with the Hertz effect, that when projected among gaseous molecules the electron soon attaches itself to one of these.

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