Re: Charge stored in Dielectric? Not really - MISCONCEPTION

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Original poster: Finn Hammer <f-h-at-c.dk> 



Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: "Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz" <acmq-at-compuland-dot-com.br>
>Tesla list wrote:

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>Any oil is
>always a much poorer insulator than dry air, and I don't see how
>an experiment using static charges may work under oil. All the
>charge would be drained immediately through the oil.
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>Antonio Carlos M. de Queiroz

Interesting, Is this the reason that oil suppresses ionisation, that it 
drains the charges away, and by doing so, create a less fierce voltage 
gradient around a point. A sort of virtual radius on sharp points?

Cheers, Finn Hammer