Lightning and Fire

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Uploaded by on Oct 27, 2009

Bill Beaty (wbeaty) brought some Argon (among many other things) down to Hackerbot Labs to play with the Tesla Coils.

We filled a glass Florence flask full of argon and capped it with paper towel. Set said flask on top of a Tesla Coil. We also had a grounded sword-thing (named "Daggar").

David was trying to get sparks from Daggar to ignite the paper towel, but was having a hard time.

Rob fixed it.

I enjoy being able to say "fixed it" and mean "light something on fire, with lightning".

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  • Fire gets going around 1:48

    Bottle of pure argon with a paper towel stuffed in the neck. Discharge easily passes through glass, argon, and flame.

    The sparks may actually be carbon based micro ball-lightning.

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