The measurement was made of the sensitivities of ion gauge to the rare gases, H
2, N
2 and CO. A McLeod gauge was used as the standard, and the Hg-drag effect was examined quantitatively with the theoretical formula proposed by Takaishi et al. It was confirmed that the Hg-drag effect could be eliminated when the cut-off position of the McLeod gauge was cooled with dry ice. It was also confirmed that the plot of relative sensitivity
vs total number of electrons per molecule gave a linear relationship, which had been found by Found and Dushman. The gradient of this linear plot was somewhat lower than that of Dushman and Young when considering the Hg-drag effect.
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