RE: spark shadows, was: Differences between "bad" streamers and "good" streamers

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Original poster: "Peter Lawrence by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Peter.Lawrence-at-Sun.COM>

The spark is plasma, which is ionized air, and ionized means free
electrons, which means it is will interact with light and might no
longer be transparent.
-Pete Lawrence

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 >Original poster: "S Gaeta by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>"
 ><sgtporky-at-prodigy-dot-net>
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 >Someone took a picture of my coil with flash. You can barely make out the
 >streamers. The wierd part is that there was a solid white background in the
 >photo, and in two of the photos it looks like there is a shadow of the
 >streamers on the wall. That's impossible! Isn't it????? How can something
 >that is light + invisable energy block light?
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 >Sue
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