On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 7:14 PM, <mix...@bigpond.com> wrote: > In reply to Axil Axil's message of Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:48:37 -0400: > Hi, > [snip] >>The most frequently introduced form of the ideal gas law is >> >>PV = nRT >> >>where *P* is the pressure of the gas, *V* is the volume of the gas, *n* is >>the amount of substance of gas (also known as number of moles), *T* is the >>temperature of the gas and *R* is the ideal, or universal, gas constant, >>equal to the product of Boltzmann's constant and Avogadro's constant. >> >>For the Papp engine, R and n are constant > > When the plasma forms, the atoms are ionized thus by definition creating an > ion > + at least one electron (possibly more depending on the degree of ionization). > That's at least 2 particles where there was originally only one, so "n" is not > constant. When the plasma recombines to a gas, "n" changes again, but in the > other direction. > > Regards, > > Robin van Spaandonk > > http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html >
so the thermodynamic anomaly (lack of warming) can be explained by a cycle of ionization/de-ionization? Harry
