Re: fire conducts electricity?

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Original poster: "Roger Drosd by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <roger-at-gcisnow-dot-com>

Comes in pretty handy too.  My gas range has an auto-relight feature.  There
is a sensor located in the flame.  If the flame blows out (usually when
turned down very low) it senses the change in conductivity, and relights the
burner.  No more cold soup.

roger drosd

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> Original poster: "Jolyon Vater Cox by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <jolyon-at-vatercox.freeserve.co.uk>
>
> Yes, fire conducts electricity -the chemical reaction of combustion
produces
> ions and these are accelerated by the electric field of your Tesla coil.
>
> Michael Faraday knew as much when researching into the identity of
"common"
> and "voltaic" electricity -ie. electricity from electrostatic machines and
> electricity from chemical batteries respectively.
> Apparently platinum wires were suspended above a burner flame on
insulating
> glass rods and the resulting current decomposed potassium iodide solution.
>
> Jolyon.
>
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> Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 6:31 PM
> Subject: fire conducts electricity?
>
>
> > Original poster: "by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
> <Beans45601-at-aol-dot-com>
> >
> > Okay, I was trying to light my blow torch (not like the blow torch that
> had the
> > tank of oxygen and take of fuel, just a little handheld one. Not sure if
> those
> > are called blow torches also...) a couple of days ago. Well, I didn't
want
> to
> > use a match, they smell, and I didn't have a lighter. So, I decided to
use
> my
> > tesla coil (I am sure it was not the smartest thing to do). Anyway, I
> stood on
> > a big plastic bucket to get my self off the ground, then turned on the
gas
> and
> > held it up to the tesla coil. Well, it light (big suprise) and I noticed
> > something weird, the sparks from my tesla coil were jumping to the fire,
> not to
> > the tip of the blow torch, but the fire. And I was thoroughly amazed!
> Okay,
> > what is happening here? does fire really conduct electricity, or is it
> > something else I didn't think about?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Adam
> >
> >
> >
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