Re: Plasma Balls with microfine carbon(was C60)

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Original poster: "Nick Andrews" <nicothefabulous-at-hotmail-dot-com> 

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>From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
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>Subject: Re: Plasma Balls with microfine carbon(was C60)
>Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 08:11:47 -0600
>
>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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>Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2004 11:30 PM
>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
> >
> >
> > ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
> > Date:  Tue, 06 Apr 2004 18:37:45 -0600
> >
> >  >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:
> >  >
> >  >why not try powdered graphite, cheap easily available in small squeeze
> >  >bottles meant for squirting into locks (dry lube).
> >  >
> >
> >
> >
> >  >Hi I,
> >  >Yes, but in physical properties, C60 is as different from graphite as
> >  >diamonds are from BBQ Charcoal.
> >  >
> >  >Matt D.
> >  >
> >  >
> >  >