Re: Lab sparks make x-rays

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Original poster: "Mike" <induction@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi Bert,
              After the conference earlier this year related to 
Gamma ray and X-ray detection from high lightning strikes on some 
science birds, some people hit the field with sensitive equipment to 
see if these could be picked up at large Tesla coils and Marx generators.
One of the Tesla sites was Boston Science Museum and other sites, NO 
bad stuff was found.
The Marx generators on the other hand had plenty to show in these 
energy regions.
The thinking by some is that the Tesla and other Non-Marx generators 
are more subtle in the ionization process, where, in natural 
lightning as Step Leaders are really hard switched, like the Marx, 
those are the places suspected of the X-ray and Gamma ray signals 
being detected.
So the fast transition, not to mention high current and highly 
thermalized events, when all three are present, it would seem so are 
the high energy signals.
I think a TC is too slow in rise time to be a problem, unless of 
course you used one to trigger a Marx or a huge cap, but then the 
cap(s) is the key player, not the TC.
You could of course place some new film here and there then develop 
it but not likely will you see anything from X-ray or Gamma ray.
Mike

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Subject: Lab sparks make x-rays


> Original poster: Bert Pool <bert.tx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Current article in Science Daily talks about how not only natural 
> lightning produces x-rays, but how recent studies have shown that 
> laboratory sparks of 1.5 to 2 million volts in the air does too.
>
> You can bet Tesla coils probably are doing it too.
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/index.php?feed=Science&article=UPI-1-20051101-20182700-bc-us-lightning.xml
>
> Bert Pool