Simple Dielectric Liquids

T J Gallagher London: Clarendon/Oxford University Press 1975 pp vi + 154 price £6 The study of electrical conduction and breakdown in hydrocarbon and cryogenic liquids has resulted in an extensive and often conflicting body of experimental evidence, augmented by a multiplicity of hypotheses nearly all of which lack satisfactory authentication. Very recent experimental advances have, however, yielded results of such significance as to demand a thorough reappraisal of the whole topic.