ABSTRACT
Since acetylene is fed into the system continuously at a given flow rate, the system pressure increases as soon as the glow discharge extinguishes. As the system pressure increases to that at which the breakdown of the gas phase could occur under the applied voltage, glow discharge is ignited again, but the reignited glow discharge follows the same path of the first discharge. As a consequence of these processes, the glow discharge occurs as a self-pulsating intermittent discharge.
