Creating plasma in the kitchen.
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Creating plasma in the kitchen.
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by Shrunk » Dec 16, 2014 12:43 pm
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Re: Creating plasma in the kitchen.
#2 by DanielCF » Jan 24, 2016 9:34 pm
I Hate to burst your bobble, but creating plasma is far from difficult; in fact plasma is the most common state of matter in the universe, at least by volume. Here are a few examples of plasma in every day life stars, florescent lights, and electrical arcs. plasma is just gases in which a good fraction of the molecules are ionized.
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Sturrock, Peter A. (1994). Plasma Physics: An Introduction to the Theory of Astrophysical, Geophysical & Laboratory Plasmas. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-44810-9.
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Sturrock, Peter A. (1994). Plasma Physics: An Introduction to the Theory of Astrophysical, Geophysical & Laboratory Plasmas. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-44810-9.
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Re: Creating plasma in the kitchen.
#3 by Shrunk » Jan 25, 2016 5:32 pm
No bubble burst. The point of that video seems to be that creating plasma is anything but difficult.
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Re: Creating plasma in the kitchen.
#4 by laklak » Jan 25, 2016 7:22 pm
I'm full of plasma. I used to get $5 a pint for it back in the day.
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Re: Creating plasma in the kitchen.
#5 by The_Piper » Jan 25, 2016 8:57 pm
He fumed himself out of his house.I have a spare microwave... and a big private backyard. Maybe I'll play this summer. The 100 foot extension cord always comes in handy.
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Re: Creating plasma in the kitchen.
#6 by scott1328 » Jan 25, 2016 9:35 pm
The_Piper wrote::lol:
I have a spare microwave... and a big private backyard. Maybe I'll play this summer. The 100 foot extension cord always comes in handy.
So, the forest fire in the backwoods of Maine that we will soon be reading of will be due to Piper's Plasma Pyromania?
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Re: Creating plasma in the kitchen.
#7 by The_Piper » Jan 25, 2016 11:20 pm
scott1328 wrote:The_Piper wrote::lol:
I have a spare microwave... and a big private backyard. Maybe I'll play this summer. The 100 foot extension cord always comes in handy.
So, the forest fire in the backwoods of Maine that we will soon be reading of will be due to Piper's Plasma Pyromania?
I have a garden hose extension too. Good thinking. 
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Re: Creating plasma in the kitchen.
#8 by Onyx8 » Jan 25, 2016 11:53 pm
Yeah, spraying water into a flaming microwave is a good idea, what could possibly go wrong? 
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Re: Creating plasma in the kitchen.
#9 by igorfrankensteen » Jan 26, 2016 1:17 am
Nothing to do with plasma, but another fun thing to do with microwave ovens: if you have a CD you want to destroy for security reasons (we used to have to do that all the time at IBM), put it in a microwave and fire it up for about ten seconds or so. Lots of fun for the whole family, and an excellent way to insure no data can be retrieved from the disk.
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