Electric breakdown in n-hexane

Electric breakdown and conduction in organic liquids has been the subject of reintensified investigation in recent years. But even in highly purified test liquids such as n-hexane the experimental evidence is still subject to continuous alteration and improvement. Failure to reproduce earlier measurements¹ of breakdown strength in n-hexane led to the discovery of the importance of dissolved air or rather oxygen in the test liquid as reported earlier². The discovery prompted this investigation, which deals mostly with the effect of dissolved gases on the electric strength of n-hexane.