What is electrical discharge and what is electrical breakdown

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An Electrical discharge is the release and transmission of electricity in an applied electric field through a medium such as a gas.

An Electrical breakdown
is when current flows through an electrical insulator when the voltage applied across it exceeds the breakdown voltage. This results in the insulator becoming electrically conducting.

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