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Leader (spark)
A leader is a hot, highly conductive channel of plasma that plays a critical part during dielectric breakdown within in a long electrical spark. When a gas is subjected to high voltage stress, the electric field is often quite non-uniform near the one, or both, of the high voltage electrodes making up a spark gap.
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