RE: Green glow

To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
Subject: RE: Green glow
From: Tesla List <tesla-at-stic-dot-net>
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 17:33:28 -0600
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From: 	Gomez[SMTP:gomez-at-netherworld-dot-com]
Reply To: 	gomez-at-netherworld-dot-com
Sent: 	Thursday, January 01, 1998 2:10 PM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: Green glow 

Tesla List wrote:
> UV-excited florescence.  Could I be generating "soft" x-rays?  I always
> assumed the inert gas filling in light bulbs prevented x-ray tube
> action.  Hmmm...
> 
> Greg

I was under the impression that most light bulbs "contained" only a hard 
vacuum.  And yes, with any voltage much over a few tens of kV, in a vacuum 
it ain't difficult at all to generate X-rays.  And given the voltage of a Tesla 
coil, they aren't going to be soft, either, although the dose-rate, 
determined by the current, won't be much.  The tungsten of which bulb 
filaments are made is just dandy for producing X-rays.

Tesla himself had a few "single electrode" x-ray tube designs which ran on 
RF.

regards,
Gomez

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