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an instrument for measuring very low gas pressures by ionizing the gas and measuring the resulting ionization current; cf. Penning gauge n. at Penning…
= ionization gauge n. at ionization, n.2 compounds.
An ionization gauge in which the passage of alpha particles through a near-vacuum generates an ionization current by means of which the pressure of…