Talk about "nuking" the leftoversThanks for the information. Is my Kimax labware still borosilicate?
Hoyt Stearns Scottsdale, Arizona US -----Original Message----- From: Jones Beene [mailto:jone...@pacbell.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2010 10:32 AM To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Subject: RE: [Vo]:Talk about "nuking" the leftovers Curious side note: to the breaking of the Pyrex bowl in this video - via plasma contact. This breakage should not have happened so quickly, IMHO . Pyrex is the brand name for Corning glassware - and it was originally borosilicate glass. Very tough stuff. Due to cost (profit, that is) the Pyrex manufactured in the US these days for home use is made of tempered soda-lime glass, which is much less shock and heat-resistant than borosilicate. This change happened many years ago. This kind of "change for the worse" is probably why this bowl broke with only moderate plasma contact - it was the new and inferior kind of Pyrex. This is a guess. OTOH borosilicate would undoubtedly be poised to react, if any neutrons were created in the plasma ball (this is because of the high cross-section of B10) and the result is a highly energetic alpha particle and lithium ion, over 2+MeV, which could create a fracture zone in the glass. But neutrons would be highly unlikely, right? At any rate, a feature of borosilicate could effectively turn nuking (figurative) into nuking (the real thing) especially if there was anything in the plasma which could undergo LENR (like D). And the second side note: this demonstrates something that the famous Russian - Sakharov patented decades ago - a plasma reactor which does not require a vacuum, since it naturally forms it own insulating double layer, even at STP which keeps the plasma from quenching. That device never found a niche, unfortunately. However, I am pretty sure this kind of plasma ball - is only viable in the 'radar range' situation, when there is plenty of soot (nano-carbon) in the originating flame. It is doubtful that this plasma could be maintained for many seconds when started with an alcohol flame, for instance. ERGO as a third side note: there is the graphene a f/H possibility, which has been mentioned before: http://www.mail-archive.com/vortex-l@eskimo.com/msg26913.html Two bad Andrei did not know about f/H and graphene . since he was "the establishment" at that time. From: Jones Beene You have heard the term "nuking" used to describe rapid heating in a microwave oven. Amazingly, here is a low tech way to make a stable plasma, using a common candle as the starter for the flame which becomes a plasma ball. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7RFyh5ABcQ No vacuum, nor magnetic confinement, nor even a Farnsworth Fusor is required. In this case, the experiment ran a little too long - and the Pyrex bowl was sacrificed (for science) Yet . and here is an odd implication: did you realize that deuterated wax is available ? For a few naive parents of precocious students, realize that your average teenage science nerd may have already ordered some of this wax. Talk about the scary possibility of "fusion in a budget" ! Not sure I care to imagine all of the further possibilities .. Jones
