Re: Re: the argon project

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Original poster: "Mike Harrison by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <mike-at-whitewing.co.uk>

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 07:17:37 -0700, you wrote:

 >Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz by way of Terry Fritz 
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>
 >
 >Tesla list wrote:
 > >
 > > Original poster: "J Dow by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 ><jdowphotography-at-hotmail-dot-com>
 >
 > > Anticipated problems:
 > > Because the argon won't ionize at normal pressure, will a fish tank pump,
 > > pump it at low pressure. We will see.
 >
 >A nice idea, but when the pressure is lowered sufficiently to produce
 >ionization, a pump will have difficulties in sending the gas through
 >the column of oil. I imagine that to create a bubble the gas would
 >have to be compressed to the pressure level at the bottom of the
 >oil column. Maybe you can mount the tube slightly inclinated
 >instead of vertical, and the bubbles will probably light up
 >only after they move a certain distance through the tube, expanding
 >to the right pressure. A very weird device, if the construction
 >is possible.
 >Another idea would be to fill small sealed glass spheres with
 >low pressure argon and make them move inside the oil-filled tube.
 >This would avoid the problems with low pressure.
..argon-filled lightbulbs might be an easy way to evaluate this
idea....