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gas doping of discharge
Subject: gas doping of discharge
Date: Mon, 19 May 97 08:32:00 EDT
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>Simplify the experiment. Instead of trying to fill the whole room
>with argon or whatever, just place a small lecture bottle filled with
>the gas of interest on top of the Tesla coil. Before firing it up,
>adjust the needle valve for a very SMALL amount of gas coming out.
Would it be easier to leave the bottle at the base, with a non
conducting tube/pipe to the top?
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Marginally relavant:
When the wireless gys did KW gaps, they sometimes ran the bigger ones
in controlled, non oxygen, atmospheres. I recall alcohol & water vapor,
for a couple...
regards
dwp