BL saga

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• Subject: BL saga
• From: "Malcolm Watts" <MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 17:04:31 -0600
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

Hi all,
          I stuck some charred wood on top of my work coil last 
evening and fired her up. Some bright spots did appear in the 
streamers but you really had to look for them. It would be a bold 
soul that could claim this was ball lightning. They appeared to be 
burining particles of carbon ejected from the charcoal, probably by 
the electric fields. The spots were formed in air streamers and I 
suspect that the considerably brighter attached discharges would all 
but mask the effect. They were not at all long lived and appeared 
only in the streamers.

Malcolm

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