The (ever-) increasing of the utilization of electric energies has resently led to surprising betterment of insulators in general use as same as those of the X-ray apparatus. About the worsening of insulators, installed to the X-ray apparatus, which may be influenced by humidity and X-ray exposure, however, it has not been studied well. It has been made clear that some kind of insulators have been deteriorated (by) the exposure of the sunlight and ultra-violet rays. But it has not been seemed clear that whether the insulators, particularly the organic iones inthem, have been influenced or not by the X-ray exposure. I chose seven sorts of insulation materials in common use and after exposing them to X-ray untill required extent, I placed them under different grades of humidity and measured the surface leakage current. I expect that the experimental results will institute the considerable problem on the insulation materials used in X-ray apparatus.
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