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".
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.
wbeaty 2 years ago