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Re: [TCML] What to call "sparks"?

Lightning researchers refer to sparks such s these as streamers.  That seems like a good name for them, although for use with TCs it seems appropriate to add various overblown adjectives, adverbs and prefixes such as big, mega-, roaring, searing, etc.  For example, "The Tesla coil creates a profusion of hot, searing streamers, powered by 500,000  BIG  VOLTS!  Woe betide anyone who tangles with these egregious examples of evanescent electromagnetic excess!"  You get the idea.  If an audience member hollers that all volts are the same size, well, that's what bouncers are for. 

---Carl
    Lightning researcher



On 8/24/2018 11:42 PM, Chris Reeland wrote:

I also technically prefer streamer when I think about it. But whimsically I
like to say loudly "Big Sparkeys!".

Chris Reeland
Ladd, IL

Sent from my LG V20

On Thu, Aug 23, 2018, 8:34 AM Russell L Thornton <
russell.l.thornton@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


Whimsically I favor sparkle but more accurately I prefer mega-spark!

Russell Thornton
Senior Engineering Specialist

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