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Re: Why does it require more to jump a plug gap 'backwards'?
Posted to Technical Theory Forum on 4/30/2013 4 Replies

The spark does not jump directly from one electrode to another, but from one electrode to the nearest fuel molecule, to the next nearest fuel molecule, and so on, until finding the other electrode. The spark always takes the path of least resistance.

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