The One Atmosphere Plasmoid
Experiment
Advanced Reduced Drag Aircraft project
By Jean-Louis Naudin
created on
February 23th, 2000 - JLN Labs
- Last update February 27th, 2000
When the
microwave oven is switched on, some brillant and white flashes
are sent silently by the burning charcoal during about 5
seconds...
And suddenly a
very short ( few milliseconds ) and a strong big blue flash fill
all
the volume of the microwave oven ( see the picture below )
and
then, a plasmoid coming
from the burning charcoal climbs up to the top
of the transparent vessel and remains stable
with a loud humming...
Click here to hear the humming of the Plasmoid in action
BE CAREFULL : Don't run the microwave oven more than
10 seconds, because the glass vessel is warming,
so check it after a short test run and let it cool a bit. Conduct
all your tests in a well ventiled area.
The orange colour
of the gaz inside the glass vessel after a run, confirms the
presence of NO2 and thus Nitrogen Oxide.
At the end of the plasmoid experiment put this vessel outside and
in open air so as to let all the NO2 out of the vessel.
Notes : I did not succeed with a candle, the toothpick works well because it is made of wood. Ionized carbon fibers are required to get the plasmoid effect in the microwave oven. As you may notice in the picture above, in spite of the thin diameter of the wooden rod (the toothpick) , after some runs of the plasmoid apparatus, the wooden rod has not been fully burned because it has been used only to initiate the reaction.
If you have some difficulties to find a spherical vessel, you may use two common Pyrex (tm) bowls, the plasmoid generated will be less stable ( a bit crratic ) than with a real sphere, but this will show you easily that the plasmoid experiment works. ( click here to see the plsamoid inside the two bowls )
THE FULL VIDEO OF THE PLASMOID EXPERIMENT
See the full RealVideo of the Plasmoid experiment ( 169 kb)
( if you don't have the RealPlayer, you may download it freely at : http://www.real.com/products/player/
You may also download ( by clicking-right on the name below ):
The Full Plasmoid RealVideo Player demo with sound ( 807 kb )
A sound analysis of the plasmoid "humming" noise has shown that its frequency is about 250 Hz.
Click here to hear the humming of the Plasmoid in action
Download the full sound wave of the Plasmoid "humming" sound (123 kb)
See the Plasmoid experiment Test #2
See the Enhanced plasmoid generator
Visit the Plasmoids pictures gallery..
Go back to the previous Plasmoid page
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