KELL2OG8

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in which we are interested, in the vicinity of the

is about ons fon pair per cubic centinster per second, Is this
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right—-te those who might be acre faniliar with eosnic

worked backward, using the recoabination coefficient

the

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numer of atuospheric ions, and caze to the conclusion phat it
woals be about one per cuble canrtineter per second froalccsaie

rays at around 20 kilosvters...,What's that?
BETHEs

That sounds rather low,

KELLOGG:

Low?

HOLZER?

Yes, I think it is low, Will.

LLOOOs

Well, the nuzber that was aantioned wasa thousand atandpherie
iens per cuble centizeter.
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WYCKOFF(?)s

The mobility is very high up there, you know, .

KELLOGOs

Fell, just taking the nuaber of ion paire—thisausber wis

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nentiqned—end if one uses the usual 10° for a resombins ion
coefficient of atacspheric ions, then one concludes that

3,000 ion petra ser cuble centineter and this rate of r

cabina~

tien would be equilitrius for one fon pal produced par
centineter per second, .

I think that we could raise this by a factor of 10 eas
Is it a facter of core than 10? Well anyway, the number

jon pairs forned by atomic cloud 20 KT, and roughly the

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