Re: Plasma Balls with microfine carbon(was C60)

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Original poster: "Richard Modistach" <hambone-at-dodo-dot-com.au> 

microfine carbon known in the pyrotechnics
industry as carbon black or lamp black is what you want,
i bought a kilo of it years ago from an industrial supplier
that i cant remember,made my own eventually,
cast my own 1-1\4" lead balls and made a ball mill.
willow charcoal is best, leave it run for a couple of days and you get the
finest filthiest charcoal you can imagine,
didn't cost a lot and got some left in a container somewhere,
the ball mill was used for grinding mixtures as well as raw materials,
lead or brass balls and a wood or plastic tumbler are mandatory,
any spark from steel is disaster with flammable microfine compounds.
used to be full on into pyrotechnics but havnt done it for
quite a few years now, try chemical suppliers or pyro specialists
in the states, or make your own in a ball mill.
i've worked with some of the most nastiest chemicals one can
imagine short of nucleur materials and these bucky balls sounds like they're
right up there with them.
if you aquire or make the suckers please take care.

btw, off topic, diamond in microfine form as the residue from the cutting
and polishing process if ingested is one of the most toxic substances which
causes one of the most slow and painful deaths known to man.

regards
richard
aus


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Subject: Re: Plasma Balls with C60


 > Original poster: "john cooper" <tesla-at-tesla-coil-dot-com>
 >
 > Great idea, the graphite powder, that is.  That would be a cheap way to
 > perfect an injection system and you never know, just may get some results
 > and good photos.  I'm trying to use the finest  carbon particles
 > possible.  The size of the carbon in burning tires/rubber/soot is what I'm
 > trying to approach, and as mentioned below the properties of a fullerine
 > such as c60 is quite different from 'normal' carbon compounds.  I could
 > collect soot from a burning substance I suppose.  Seems to me that a
series
 > of experiments with progressively finer materials ending with c60 is
 > probably in order, with rolling video and a camera taking 3 second
exposures.
 >
 > John
 >
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 > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 > Date:  Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:37:45 -0600
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 >  >Original poster: Mddeming-at-aol-dot-com
 >  >
 >  >In a message dated 4/6/04 2:43:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
 >  >tesla-at-pupman-dot-com writes:
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 >  >why not try powdered graphite, cheap easily available in small squeeze
 >  >bottles meant for squirting into locks (dry lube).
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 >  >Hi I,
 >  >Yes, but in physical properties, C60 is as different from graphite as
 >  >diamonds are from BBQ Charcoal.
 >  >
 >  >Matt D.
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