Re: Golka video: Ball Lightning in lab. WHAT?!!!!!

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Original poster: William Beaty <billb@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Tesla list wrote:

> Question, does very high temperature product placed into water break the
> bond of H2O? Would the AL get enough from air or is the water adding to the
> Hydrogen? Something else, once the molten aluminum takes in the hydrogen,
> as it goes from molten to solid it now can not hold it, producing perhaps
> the gas pockets I've seen in the hollow shells with slag bonding to a metal
> core, is this now freed hydrogen adding to the combustion and light output?
> I do wonder.

Maybe it is a liquid metal foam after all, and would shrink greatly as the
incandescent gas inside the bubbles cools off.

With burning magnesium or aluminum or sodium on water, I think the heat
will crack the H-O bond, then the metal reacts violently with single-atom
oxygen and releases H2 gas.  Hydrogen disolves in many metals, but
"burning" with oxygen dominates.



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