My explanation: water is a polar molecule. By using a charged or chargeable object, like a piece of paper or a hand, water vapor is attracted and also aligns with the electric field. The pressure increases, due the higher density of water, and pushes air out of the more intense electric field. Given that CO2, that is, dry ice, is apolar, it gets pushed only by the air. The result it is tha the shape of the object is printed above the water surface, as a hole.
do magnets taped to the paper have any effect ? sort of lie flat magnets taped at various palces to see if the lines are drawin something other than "straight lines" ---
if that's how they propogate ....
perhaps this is a similar phenomenon to the electron gun - used in CRT tubes, etc ?? !!
just guessing and enjoying the "new" phenomenon....
@johnsdevid Nope, it's incredibly feeble. It's like trying to feel some cigarette smoke. But as your hand approaches, the hole in the fog will deflect as the charge on your body affects the stream. (Your body always has some small pos or neg charge except on very humid days.)
Safety third! Really enjoying your videos, especially the DISGUSTOSCOPE! You're a twisted man, but in the best of ways:) Thanks for making science fun. SCIENCE! Btw, ever been to a Burn? Like Burning Man? I think you'd enjoy it.
@plinnyful ?2007? I was the dry ice madman in Center House, in goggles and white labcoat, trying to put chunks of dry ice in people's coffee and water bottles.
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So many stupid comments. Perhaps this effect could be used on a vehicle to blow away fog when driving. It would be nice to have the fog flee before you as you drive. Get on that idea, could make you quite the chunk of cash if it works out.
this is very good .. think to do something similar ... but I have no real negative ion generator..I can make a device that provides about 6,000 V ... whether it will be enough for this ekspreriment?
That should do 'er! Actually, polarity seems not to matter. Hmmm, I never tried turning the voltage down to see how low you can go. For higher volts, the emitter can be farther from the fog plate. (For a VandeGraaff machine, it can be a couple of yards away!)
Probably not. It works best with slightly damp fibers. It doesn't work at all with sharp metal needles. Perhaps it's a variety of "Electrospray," micro-droplets of liquid being pulled off the fiber tip. They would quickly evaporate, leaving charged dry particles of solute behind. (Electrospray was once used for one form of inkjet printer. Also look up high-voltage "electrospinning" of nano-scale fibers.) Or perhaps it's similar to smoke, where plasma burns the fiber itp.
Even as a kid, I used to read the coolest books on discovery of X rays, and by 9 making my own motors from scrap. Then one day I discovered St Elmo's Fire. Now that was cool seeing it exit from your hands and not feeling it.
Many yrs later at night seeing it again from front side of jet engines at full power.
It,s so funny, owls are supposed to be able to see in the dark cause there eyes has a reflective layer..... ever seen something reflective (silvery paper, mirror) when it is dark thus nothing to reflect ? you dont see it the same way as you would see the eyes of an owl or a cat light up in the dark as it sees you.
A mirror is as visible as anything in the dark which is not.
Owls see by moonlight. They can see into darker areas because their mirror eyes will bounce out the light from bright scenery. Try looking into a dark open window while outdoors on a sunny day. The light bouncing around inside your eyes will keep you from seeing anything in the window unless you cup your hands around your face to block unwanted light. Owls and cats don't need that, since light doesn't bounce around inside their eyes.
Simple experiment : take some known reflecting materials with you, a mirror, or anything. Hold it in you,re hand as you stretch you,re arm in front of you. You won't see anything if its dark enough. But if a cat, dog or owl passes, on much bigger distance, and looks at you, you see the eyes light up clear and brigth.
Why this difference ? Some super natural reflecting material that reflects light hundreds off times better then a mirror ?
Maybe, but I doubt it. Cloud chambers use a supersaturated air layer created with 100F temperature gradient. Get a slab of dry ice, wrap it in alcohol-soaked black cloth.
I spent a very good part of my life in labs doing work in materials science. One thing I have finally figured out is how to spot someone that is genuine and brilliant. Also clearly gifted. It is a terrible shame we don't have teachers in every school with even half your passion and fascination. Truely .. I am happy to have found your videos. Please, never stop doing whatever it is that drives you and fuels your quirky personality. I suspect Pascal and J.C. Maxwell were similar people too!
I wonder does this work also if the electricitysource that feeds the highvoltagesupply is not earthed anywhere like the normal three fase net. (For instance if you would use a generator like on buildingsites). My guess is not and I think the same goes for the so called lifters.
I don't know if this would be to complicated or not, but do you think you could build a simple voltage doubler or multiplier? And could you make a video of a Leyden Jar? Thanks!
Back when I was a kid, I got one of those science experiment kits that included building a cloud chamber. It included a little pinhead of radium and some water and dry ice. Once the cloud formed, you could see ion trails from the radium in the little chamber - which was about the size of a dixie cup.
I wonder if this isn't something similar.
BTW was a big fan of Mr. Wizard and quite enjoy your videos.
maybe the army could use the airflow that comes with the ionisation of air to clear smoke from enemy tanks (tactical smoke used for hiding your tank to get out of the battle)
Research into the electrical characteristics of weather (and climate) is overdue. Mars experiences cyclonic winds without having any oceans to provide "thermal input." Any ideas as to causes?
Check out 'electric universe' for some great theses on electricity's influence in our universe.
You could try making a weather model and see if it checks out. Something like the setup above but with a watercurrent running through which is strongest at the middle, then evening out towards the top and bottom to fake the coriolis-force or something. Locally heating the water would be pretty hard though :)
You are an inspired tinkerer! I would call you a genius but that word is over used and ill defineed. Have you thought of becoming a teacher or working in a science museum?
I ran the tech section of Museum of Sci. in Boston for five years. I had to quit after getting married (you can't raise a family on science museum pay.) Teacher salary is quite a bit better, but nothing like average pay for software or electronics work.
The black and white wires are hooked to the AC cord. I use butt-crimp connectors, but you could use wire nuts. Make sure the connections are kept separate and completely covered (use black electrical tape.)
Well even .33 amps is a little hard to believe. Who are we talking about dieing to such low amperage an old person with a pacemaker? I little .33 jolt and kaboom? lol
.33 miliamps is not going to kill anyone, that's ridiculous. I've been zapped by household current, dazers, stun guns and let me tell ya, those stun guns really work if you can hold it onto someone long enough but the one used on me was a homemade one @ 3 amps. It burned more than anything. If .33 milamps ever killed anyone please reference the article so I can stand corrected.
I don't know if your term of Micro amps is our norwegian term of Mili amps - but you only need about 0.33 mili amps to kill a person :P Amps kill people! not voltage! Just some information for you guys to have fun
They were $3.50 at All Electronics when they first appeared. But they sold out after a year, then Electronics Goldmine started carrying them. I've seen them on Chinese bulk dealer sites.
Ah, so that's where they're from! I completely forgot about All Electronics and Electronics Goldmine over these past few years of not doing DIY projects...
Definitely gotta request some new catalogs from them sometime.
hmm. so ur saying i can shoot out electricity if i plug myself into a wall and direct it towards another country and they might feel .. maybe.. mmm a hurricane? =D hahaha
looks like we dont need weapons of mass destruction anymore!
it's not airflows, CO2 is just nonpolar and moves out of the way of the electric field. if airflows like you're explaining actually existed, batteries would generate wind.
> if airflows like you're explaining actually existed, I think you should search on keywords "ion wind." Also "corona wind." Also "electric wind."
Batteries do generate wind. Stack up cells to create a few KV, and any sharp edges on battery terminals will create corona discharge and launch some ion wind.
Your vids are awesome. Keep on uploading, i have no home, but i really apreciate this science aproximation (sorry for my english, im self-instructed), and many people would... Thanks a lot
After adding the water and dry ice, try laying a piece of glass over the cookie sheet, then see if the lines still appear. I recall something similar in a science text and it was supposed to make traces of the cosmic wind visible in the cloud.
Everything else has already been done. Done repeatedly. But people have been terrified of dry ice for decades, so nobody knows about all the cool tricks.
Mosly I only post new ideas of my own, never stuff found in books. Let other people steal ideas, I want to be the first with new ones.
Stay awake for several days while eating only dry meat, almonds, asparagus, beer. You'll have ideas. Some new ones.
Wow dude thats really cool, i hae watched so many of ur vids and have lernt so much =P. I wish they did science in school lke you do but they just talk you to death and make you copy things down so i used to wag science to go skate. Keep up the vids there awesome dude =D I like the way you explain things. Sorry if there are any words missing my keyboard is dying lol =D
I don't get it, i thought Ions were atoms that don't have neutral net charge? What ions are being generated? Won't the generator get lighter and lighter after using it?
Might be air ions. Or might be bits of the sharp electrode, sort of like nano-smoke particles. Ions are pretty small.
If the electrode is losing atoms, perhaps the sharp tip eventually becomes dull. But if it becomes sharper as it erodes, then it might take millenia before significant loss of matter was detected.
A 10 nanoamp current, say, would lose 1e-8/1.6e-19 atoms/sec, or 1e-13 moles per second, or .00004 grams per year, for carbon ions torn from an organic electrode.
The "threads" are blocked by anything. They can be pushed around by charged objects.
If we could detect them when they impact a surface, perhaps we could use one as a microscope by raster-scanning it across a tiny object above that surface.
Doing crazy stuff like this myself, I would have atleast sopped up all that water on the table before pushing those, what seems to be exposed wires, through puddles of water on the table lol, but hey thats just me,____ there is a fine line between being a Geinous and and Insanity, guess im not quite over the edge yet.
> before pushing those, what seems to be exposed wires,
No exposed wires.
The negative high-volt wire is limited to 50uA current, which is far too small to even feel. It's more like a VandeGraaff machine: a fairly safe source of eight thousand volts.
I've decided that it's electrospray, where the tip of non-metal fibers will periodically throw off tiny droplets or perhaps solid fragments. An electric micro-squirtgun. Also it's Tesla's Death Ray (which was basically a liquid mercury electrospray emitter, and a hundred-megavolt linear accelerator in high vacuum.)
Doesn't. I tried quite large supermagnets. But it's expected, since the current is way below a microamp.
It reacts to charged objects. A charged balloon, if wiggled at a distance, makes the fog spot wiggle. And if you can create several-kilovolt sawtooth waveforms, you can build an oscilloscope (a crt tube in air, no vacuum)
To teach yourself high-voltage safety, first you have to start out terrified. Over the years you'll slowly learn what's genuinely dangerous.
Water is fairly safe around a current-limited HV power supply, but only if the limit is hundreds of microamperes, water can't get into the HV supply, and the supply has no output capacitor.
See, it's easier just to assume that high voltage plus water ALWAYS equals instant death!
Awesome videos, I'd like to be near Seattle someday to know you in person, and see some experiments that can't be reproduced on Cameras :) Btw, a question, have you tried doing this same experiment using the FLIR camera? I imagine it can somehow capture different stuff...makes sense or I am trippin here?
I'll try sometime. But I think FLIR is famous for seeing through fog (the droplets are nearly the size of wavelength, so it doesn't look white, IR doesn't scatter.)
wbeaty - Would be cool to show the finished experiment first in your videos to whet the appetite of the viewers, then go into how you got there. Very nice videos, thanks for taking time to post. I wonder if this is related to tesla's Vertible Rope's of Air for his "Flyver" vehicle.
Nice vid !
HorizonDelta 1 week ago
Dude ur the ground
Jhfgsjdcd 2 months ago
im watching couple of his vids at the moment,, and they are really great!!
kkrbloedhond 6 months ago
My explanation: water is a polar molecule. By using a charged or chargeable object, like a piece of paper or a hand, water vapor is attracted and also aligns with the electric field. The pressure increases, due the higher density of water, and pushes air out of the more intense electric field. Given that CO2, that is, dry ice, is apolar, it gets pushed only by the air. The result it is tha the shape of the object is printed above the water surface, as a hole.
MTd2 8 months ago
If simple needles have such effects, just think about what is doing the Tower Eiffel in Paris...
seyoumeye 8 months ago
Cloud formations - striations - are they electrically shaped?
banishedfromthisarea 1 year ago
Witchcraft
Kvnjnsn0 1 year ago
what you have in the coca cola's glass...??
asdafasful 1 year ago
debili
simepfc15 1 year ago
OH NOO..i see a disaster
crocop195 1 year ago
~7000 volts??? That hurts, i think :/
1Nekit1 1 year ago
wow you are smart dude good job keep up the videos!!!!
xDSxTwistedd 1 year ago
wow. amazing.
vwiehl0828 1 year ago
How come two lines followed your finger?
aapinator 1 year ago
do magnets taped to the paper have any effect ? sort of lie flat magnets taped at various palces to see if the lines are drawin something other than "straight lines" ---
if that's how they propogate ....
perhaps this is a similar phenomenon to the electron gun - used in CRT tubes, etc ?? !!
just guessing and enjoying the "new" phenomenon....
smde1 1 year ago
Can you place your hand between the paper and the dry ice and feel the "wind"?
johnsdevid 1 year ago
@johnsdevid Nope, it's incredibly feeble. It's like trying to feel some cigarette smoke. But as your hand approaches, the hole in the fog will deflect as the charge on your body affects the stream. (Your body always has some small pos or neg charge except on very humid days.)
wbeaty 1 year ago
He reminds me of Iron-mans enemy from Ironman 2 movie.
betwixtX 1 year ago
amazing
betwixtX 1 year ago
what would happen if you put yor finger into the water with out touching the dry ice
brandon14872 1 year ago
Pretty cool.
How about a pencil dipped in baby powder as an emitter?
Try it in liquid nitrogen/water ? add Joy to it?
jci10 1 year ago
Safety third! Really enjoying your videos, especially the DISGUSTOSCOPE! You're a twisted man, but in the best of ways:) Thanks for making science fun. SCIENCE! Btw, ever been to a Burn? Like Burning Man? I think you'd enjoy it.
plinnyful 1 year ago
@plinnyful ?2007? I was the dry ice madman in Center House, in goggles and white labcoat, trying to put chunks of dry ice in people's coffee and water bottles.
wbeaty 1 year ago
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ugis1000 1 year ago
So many stupid comments. Perhaps this effect could be used on a vehicle to blow away fog when driving. It would be nice to have the fog flee before you as you drive. Get on that idea, could make you quite the chunk of cash if it works out.
shadywalker 1 year ago
Too, too much water about... Danger
Films4You 1 year ago
@Films4You lol
shadywalker 1 year ago
Interesting... Doesnt that produce Electron Radiation (Like the CRTs do)?
soryy708 1 year ago
@soryy708 lol crt makes x-rays.. It is due to the electron beams used to draw the picture on the screen..
shadywalker 1 year ago
Is this a static reaction?
dnwndls 1 year ago
lets play with electricity near spilled water
QuaziGNRLNose 1 year ago
arfazzv
MrBradbrad177 1 year ago
Borring...
skartados666 1 year ago
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wilfeatscheese 1 year ago
wow that's mega cool :)
PassoutBlank 1 year ago
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ReYReY723 1 year ago
wow this is cool
dimoschka 2 years ago
where do you buy dry ice?
anbukakashi114 2 years ago
> buy dry ice?
Click on (more info) over near the yellow subscribe button?
wbeaty 2 years ago
oh thanks :)
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pixie900026 1 year ago
dangerous stuff + high voltage = allways fun
akademiker23 2 years ago 11
until you zap yourselve and ur eyes pops out.
bas12345654321 2 years ago
this is very good .. think to do something similar ... but I have no real negative ion generator..I can make a device that provides about 6,000 V ... whether it will be enough for this ekspreriment?
SRBscientist 2 years ago
> 6,000V
That should do 'er! Actually, polarity seems not to matter. Hmmm, I never tried turning the voltage down to see how low you can go. For higher volts, the emitter can be farther from the fog plate. (For a VandeGraaff machine, it can be a couple of yards away!)
wbeaty 2 years ago
"It's electric wind, following the lines of the e-field" E-P-I-C !
N3m3cis 2 years ago 3
this looks like it could be used to help those foggy mornings on the way to work....
poisonsting8404 2 years ago
How many volts are you using to "blow" the fog apart?
JerryGiesler09 2 years ago
>How many volts
Those ionizers are supposedly 7500VDC. Voltage falls low when drawing a large ion current.
wbeaty 2 years ago
So... Is this Ion Wind?
ephise54 2 years ago
> Ion Wind?
Probably not. It works best with slightly damp fibers. It doesn't work at all with sharp metal needles. Perhaps it's a variety of "Electrospray," micro-droplets of liquid being pulled off the fiber tip. They would quickly evaporate, leaving charged dry particles of solute behind. (Electrospray was once used for one form of inkjet printer. Also look up high-voltage "electrospinning" of nano-scale fibers.) Or perhaps it's similar to smoke, where plasma burns the fiber itp.
wbeaty 2 years ago
where can i find the negative ion generator
PO1LUGO 2 years ago
> find the neg
click on the links. Look under the yellow subscribe button
wbeaty 2 years ago
i just got an idea for a fly-killer!
vortegaunt 2 years ago
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oOfretlessOo 2 years ago
Even as a kid, I used to read the coolest books on discovery of X rays, and by 9 making my own motors from scrap. Then one day I discovered St Elmo's Fire. Now that was cool seeing it exit from your hands and not feeling it.
Many yrs later at night seeing it again from front side of jet engines at full power.
We love it.
Philscbx 2 years ago
It,s so funny, owls are supposed to be able to see in the dark cause there eyes has a reflective layer..... ever seen something reflective (silvery paper, mirror) when it is dark thus nothing to reflect ? you dont see it the same way as you would see the eyes of an owl or a cat light up in the dark as it sees you.
A mirror is as visible as anything in the dark which is not.
ghrasp 2 years ago
>owls are
Owls see by moonlight. They can see into darker areas because their mirror eyes will bounce out the light from bright scenery. Try looking into a dark open window while outdoors on a sunny day. The light bouncing around inside your eyes will keep you from seeing anything in the window unless you cup your hands around your face to block unwanted light. Owls and cats don't need that, since light doesn't bounce around inside their eyes.
wbeaty 2 years ago
Simple experiment : take some known reflecting materials with you, a mirror, or anything. Hold it in you,re hand as you stretch you,re arm in front of you. You won't see anything if its dark enough. But if a cat, dog or owl passes, on much bigger distance, and looks at you, you see the eyes light up clear and brigth.
Why this difference ? Some super natural reflecting material that reflects light hundreds off times better then a mirror ?
Naah... that,s pure natural radar.
ghrasp 2 years ago
Reaction is also funny as it was meant for other video.....
ghrasp 2 years ago
Could you pick up alpha/beta radiation with this? like a Wilson cloud chamber?
adamthecg 2 years ago
> pick up alpha/beta
Maybe, but I doubt it. Cloud chambers use a supersaturated air layer created with 100F temperature gradient. Get a slab of dry ice, wrap it in alcohol-soaked black cloth.
wbeaty 2 years ago
that's how ipods and iphones work.. not exactly but yeah..
ActiveStorage 2 years ago
I spent a very good part of my life in labs doing work in materials science. One thing I have finally figured out is how to spot someone that is genuine and brilliant. Also clearly gifted. It is a terrible shame we don't have teachers in every school with even half your passion and fascination. Truely .. I am happy to have found your videos. Please, never stop doing whatever it is that drives you and fuels your quirky personality. I suspect Pascal and J.C. Maxwell were similar people too!
lastmiles 2 years ago
I wonder does this work also if the electricitysource that feeds the highvoltagesupply is not earthed anywhere like the normal three fase net. (For instance if you would use a generator like on buildingsites). My guess is not and I think the same goes for the so called lifters.
ghrasp 2 years ago
I don't know if this would be to complicated or not, but do you think you could build a simple voltage doubler or multiplier? And could you make a video of a Leyden Jar? Thanks!
puckhound95 2 years ago
that is kool
scienc is kool
rcatstott 2 years ago
Back when I was a kid, I got one of those science experiment kits that included building a cloud chamber. It included a little pinhead of radium and some water and dry ice. Once the cloud formed, you could see ion trails from the radium in the little chamber - which was about the size of a dixie cup.
I wonder if this isn't something similar.
BTW was a big fan of Mr. Wizard and quite enjoy your videos.
Pangael 2 years ago 2
check out flying saucers how they fly we can build our own should give you some ideas
120dbdavid 2 years ago
maybe the army could use the airflow that comes with the ionisation of air to clear smoke from enemy tanks (tactical smoke used for hiding your tank to get out of the battle)
tukker64 2 years ago
I swear man, you're stoned.
Cyanesence 2 years ago
make a video of that valley effect on the fog that would be awesome in large scale :D
kalabaw789 2 years ago 2
cool*** sorry
jojosoko84 2 years ago
would a magnet or iron dust do something kool?
jojosoko84 2 years ago
science and physics are so cool
coulditbekronau 2 years ago 11
Research into the electrical characteristics of weather (and climate) is overdue. Mars experiences cyclonic winds without having any oceans to provide "thermal input." Any ideas as to causes?
Check out 'electric universe' for some great theses on electricity's influence in our universe.
Good apparatus, loads of fun to be had...
JoeNieroski 2 years ago
What if hurricanes were electrical phenomena rather than solar heating?
wbeaty 2 years ago
You could try making a weather model and see if it checks out. Something like the setup above but with a watercurrent running through which is strongest at the middle, then evening out towards the top and bottom to fake the coriolis-force or something. Locally heating the water would be pretty hard though :)
ZarathustraDK 2 years ago
You are an inspired tinkerer! I would call you a genius but that word is over used and ill defineed. Have you thought of becoming a teacher or working in a science museum?
michalchik 2 years ago
I ran the tech section of Museum of Sci. in Boston for five years. I had to quit after getting married (you can't raise a family on science museum pay.) Teacher salary is quite a bit better, but nothing like average pay for software or electronics work.
wbeaty 2 years ago
Hello I was hoping you could help me with how you conected the Ion generator to the ac cable.
RealitiesX 2 years ago
The black and white wires are hooked to the AC cord. I use butt-crimp connectors, but you could use wire nuts. Make sure the connections are kept separate and completely covered (use black electrical tape.)
wbeaty 2 years ago
You like dry ice, dont u
SimpIyBlue 2 years ago
Well even .33 amps is a little hard to believe. Who are we talking about dieing to such low amperage an old person with a pacemaker? I little .33 jolt and kaboom? lol
dmgcat 2 years ago
.33 miliamps is not going to kill anyone, that's ridiculous. I've been zapped by household current, dazers, stun guns and let me tell ya, those stun guns really work if you can hold it onto someone long enough but the one used on me was a homemade one @ 3 amps. It burned more than anything. If .33 milamps ever killed anyone please reference the article so I can stand corrected.
dmgcat 2 years ago
probably meant 0.33 amps
wbeaty 2 years ago
Norge eier
guitarheronorway 2 years ago
Doesn't that airflow have a notable amount of O3?
Or am I thinking of electrostatic blowers...
That's a fun trick... electricity pulling around the air.
HWGuyEG 2 years ago
I don't know if your term of Micro amps is our norwegian term of Mili amps - but you only need about 0.33 mili amps to kill a person :P Amps kill people! not voltage! Just some information for you guys to have fun
dacel88 2 years ago
"Micro" is an international standard. Milliamperes are 1000 times larger than microamperes.
wbeaty 2 years ago
William, did you by any chance get that ion generator from Sciplus[dot]com when they had it in stock at one point or another?
PlasmaFire3000 2 years ago
They were $3.50 at All Electronics when they first appeared. But they sold out after a year, then Electronics Goldmine started carrying them. I've seen them on Chinese bulk dealer sites.
wbeaty 2 years ago
Ah, so that's where they're from! I completely forgot about All Electronics and Electronics Goldmine over these past few years of not doing DIY projects...
Definitely gotta request some new catalogs from them sometime.
PlasmaFire3000 2 years ago
will lows/home depot have dry ice block's/pebbles
iwilpooponu 2 years ago
could yous this to see magnetic waves
withinthetruth 2 years ago
then take a bath with a plugged in toaster.. fun fun
youngcp425 2 years ago
hmm. so ur saying i can shoot out electricity if i plug myself into a wall and direct it towards another country and they might feel .. maybe.. mmm a hurricane? =D hahaha
looks like we dont need weapons of mass destruction anymore!
=p ?
iuzarneim 2 years ago
High voltage needles will create "corona wind." Five thousand volts works. 10KVDC works better.
wbeaty 2 years ago
that is facinating
deckoland 2 years ago
stick your hand in it!
Ajss321 2 years ago
i made one of those negative ion machines from some scrap tv parts and it gives me 25,000 volts output
laurdy 2 years ago
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whatre you the dry ice fairy?
Nickdarbouz 2 years ago
thats kind of dangerous
juliantazora 2 years ago
Not actually, because it doesn't have lot of amperes.. I heard that when you're petting a cat there's 16000 volts, but like no amperes at all...
jodex96 2 years ago 4
You're awesome man. I wish you were my science teacher in high school.
sweet1212121 2 years ago 12
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what is better ac or dc current?
grimper65rocks 2 years ago
Thats like asking whats better apples or oranges.
an97an 2 years ago
oranges?
braken506 2 years ago
what do you mean better?
do you mean safer?
if you meant that then i would say dc. since it has a less chance of killing you... >_>
hellstudios 2 years ago
Thanks for placing your video on the right side of my monitor screen. I am very glad to have found out about your hobby. Signed, David Justian
drjustian 2 years ago
it's not airflows, CO2 is just nonpolar and moves out of the way of the electric field. if airflows like you're explaining actually existed, batteries would generate wind.
stratplayer1992 2 years ago 4
if CO2 is nonpolar it wouldn't be affected by any electric fields ;) (it is kind of neutral)
only negative or postive polarised materials will be affected!
FrinkBatallion 2 years ago
> if airflows like you're explaining actually existed, I think you should search on keywords "ion wind." Also "corona wind." Also "electric wind."
Batteries do generate wind. Stack up cells to create a few KV, and any sharp edges on battery terminals will create corona discharge and launch some ion wind.
wbeaty 2 years ago
Its ionized airflows actually, and yes, a high enough voltage battery will produce a 'wind' of sorts.
frosty956 2 years ago
didnt read wbeaty's reply, who said tthat already, sorry
frosty956 2 years ago
Amazing, would be the perfect magic trick! =D
swarm420 2 years ago
Your vids are awesome. Keep on uploading, i have no home, but i really apreciate this science aproximation (sorry for my english, im self-instructed), and many people would... Thanks a lot
perestube 2 years ago
I love how he starts: FOR MAXIMUM FUN
alexandeu 2 years ago 3
wow, you can make a ton of fun with dry ice :D
XL1813 2 years ago 3
After adding the water and dry ice, try laying a piece of glass over the cookie sheet, then see if the lines still appear. I recall something similar in a science text and it was supposed to make traces of the cosmic wind visible in the cloud.
Peopleunit 2 years ago
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whats up with this freak and dry ice?
GraandHustleMafia 2 years ago
Everything else has already been done. Done repeatedly. But people have been terrified of dry ice for decades, so nobody knows about all the cool tricks.
Mosly I only post new ideas of my own, never stuff found in books. Let other people steal ideas, I want to be the first with new ones.
Stay awake for several days while eating only dry meat, almonds, asparagus, beer. You'll have ideas. Some new ones.
wbeaty 2 years ago
pls make more vids. your vids are awesome
hawhawdecarabaw 2 years ago 6
dude this is awesome.
super cool
unearthlyminionofgod 2 years ago
wow.cool.
pogiyou1 2 years ago
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i sent it to mythbusters caus i dont wanna try it
microwaveman123 2 years ago
lol, but its nt a myth
AtomicCheese92 2 years ago 6
WOW
xmate3 2 years ago
hey keep up the good work maybe you will change history :D
ericm1988 2 years ago 2
Wow dude thats really cool, i hae watched so many of ur vids and have lernt so much =P. I wish they did science in school lke you do but they just talk you to death and make you copy things down so i used to wag science to go skate. Keep up the vids there awesome dude =D I like the way you explain things. Sorry if there are any words missing my keyboard is dying lol =D
darko12321 2 years ago 2
sweet.
lamo4ever 2 years ago
wow thats amazing, it like ghost hands, sick
Br0kenB0t 2 years ago
I don't get it, i thought Ions were atoms that don't have neutral net charge? What ions are being generated? Won't the generator get lighter and lighter after using it?
vwr0527 2 years ago
Might be air ions. Or might be bits of the sharp electrode, sort of like nano-smoke particles. Ions are pretty small.
If the electrode is losing atoms, perhaps the sharp tip eventually becomes dull. But if it becomes sharper as it erodes, then it might take millenia before significant loss of matter was detected.
A 10 nanoamp current, say, would lose 1e-8/1.6e-19 atoms/sec, or 1e-13 moles per second, or .00004 grams per year, for carbon ions torn from an organic electrode.
wbeaty 2 years ago
This is just too awesome!! I'm gonna do it!!
SqueeJohnny420 2 years ago
Awesome!
mojojodon 2 years ago
WOOW!!!
that's freakin' awesome!
lucb1e 2 years ago
Seattle wierd science meeting? THAT SOUNDS AWESOME!
CloudHill28 2 years ago
Go see:
amasci com/wsci/
wbeaty 2 years ago
nice that looks cool
and gablo912 didnt you hear him "no real danger" its safe
DarkstarHOLLOW 2 years ago
where u get dry ice ?
pyhap2ev 2 years ago
King soopers lol. pretty much anywhere.
stroffenberry 2 years ago
Cool!
Visnitchi 2 years ago
this ...not look realy safe ... but cool
gablo912 2 years ago
Would this would this work with a plane of glass or plexy glass was above the tray as a guard?
GreedHornedDeamon 2 years ago
Click on the website link.
The "threads" are blocked by anything. They can be pushed around by charged objects.
If we could detect them when they impact a surface, perhaps we could use one as a microscope by raster-scanning it across a tiny object above that surface.
wbeaty 2 years ago
NICE
Particleking 2 years ago
Doing crazy stuff like this myself, I would have atleast sopped up all that water on the table before pushing those, what seems to be exposed wires, through puddles of water on the table lol, but hey thats just me,____ there is a fine line between being a Geinous and and Insanity, guess im not quite over the edge yet.
MnstrSubrbn 2 years ago
> before pushing those, what seems to be exposed wires,
No exposed wires.
The negative high-volt wire is limited to 50uA current, which is far too small to even feel. It's more like a VandeGraaff machine: a fairly safe source of eight thousand volts.
wbeaty 2 years ago
I can't seem to find it at electronics goldmine, any catagories I should be looking in to help? thanks.
greenHD162 2 years ago
Google search "negative ion high voltage" for my website about these. Number G1783 at E.G.
wbeaty 2 years ago
you would be the best science teacher!
russ691 2 years ago
2:16
Is that a jellyfish?
Noobish111 2 years ago 2
very cool! I love these vids now!
dalesalsa 2 years ago 4
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*yawn*
It gets old hearing people so excited about their delusions.
mryellow123 2 years ago
so nice.. u got me hooked!
1shure1 2 years ago 3
cool!!!
bassboy923 2 years ago
2:15 to 2:18 mini dry ice boat lol
30GB 2 years ago
amazing again!
mintzuman 2 years ago 3
You definitely love dry ice :), nice video.
Stojke2K9 2 years ago 2
awesome
Ashcashcash 2 years ago
"Hooks right to AC..." That scares the crap out of me.
1011010 3 years ago
> Any theories
I've decided that it's electrospray, where the tip of non-metal fibers will periodically throw off tiny droplets or perhaps solid fragments. An electric micro-squirtgun. Also it's Tesla's Death Ray (which was basically a liquid mercury electrospray emitter, and a hundred-megavolt linear accelerator in high vacuum.)
wbeaty 3 years ago
lol u shure like dry ice,love your videos verrrry interesting/neat.
demonsparkx 3 years ago
you have to be the coolest old guy on the net .. no offence
666evo666 3 years ago 2
how does it react to a magnetic field?
crippled82 3 years ago
> how does it react to a magnetic field?
Doesn't. I tried quite large supermagnets. But it's expected, since the current is way below a microamp.
It reacts to charged objects. A charged balloon, if wiggled at a distance, makes the fog spot wiggle. And if you can create several-kilovolt sawtooth waveforms, you can build an oscilloscope (a crt tube in air, no vacuum)
wbeaty 3 years ago
The fun you have never ceases to amaze me, thanks for the great videos!!!
itsgr82bl8 3 years ago
I found it hilarious how there are all these live wires everywhere and just puddles of water lying around.
mynameisnotanumber 3 years ago
> puddles of water lying around.
To teach yourself high-voltage safety, first you have to start out terrified. Over the years you'll slowly learn what's genuinely dangerous.
Water is fairly safe around a current-limited HV power supply, but only if the limit is hundreds of microamperes, water can't get into the HV supply, and the supply has no output capacitor.
See, it's easier just to assume that high voltage plus water ALWAYS equals instant death!
wbeaty 3 years ago
i would LOVE to have this guy as my science teacher!!!
idareyou2move24 3 years ago 5
I KNOW!!!
AmazonSamurai 3 years ago
Awesome videos, I'd like to be near Seattle someday to know you in person, and see some experiments that can't be reproduced on Cameras :) Btw, a question, have you tried doing this same experiment using the FLIR camera? I imagine it can somehow capture different stuff...makes sense or I am trippin here?
ernanimartins 3 years ago
I'll try sometime. But I think FLIR is famous for seeing through fog (the droplets are nearly the size of wavelength, so it doesn't look white, IR doesn't scatter.)
wbeaty 3 years ago
You are awesome man xD
mieczyk12323536266 3 years ago
wbeaty - Would be cool to show the finished experiment first in your videos to whet the appetite of the viewers, then go into how you got there. Very nice videos, thanks for taking time to post. I wonder if this is related to tesla's Vertible Rope's of Air for his "Flyver" vehicle.
KarasCyborg 3 years ago
> cool to show the finished experiment first
That's the "moving fog triangle" shown first.
> related to Tesla's Vertible Rope's of Air
Nah, those use a vacuum tube and a few hundred Kvolts.
wbeaty 3 years ago
awesome :D
killaconquerguy 3 years ago
dude u r so awom i already recomended 3 of your expiriments to my pysics teacher you are so cool
grybop 3 years ago
isn't it just moving lines of flux or something?
crypticdiction 3 years ago
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Here's an idea for an experiment.
Go out and try to knock off a piece of ass, man!
Enough with the nerdy bullshit.
pedromusgo 3 years ago