AN EXPERIMENTAL AND THEORETICAL-STUDY OF THE ABSORPTION OF SF6 ARC PLASMA RADIATION BY COLD SF6 GAS

This study into radiative transfer in a SF6 are plasma is devoted firs t to measure the relative absorption of the SF6 are radiation by cold SF6 gas; second, to calculate this absorption; and third, to obtain a simplified expression for this absorption useful in are modelling. in general, more than 50% of the radiation emitted by a SF6 are is absorb ed in the surrounding SF6 gas.