Flame Triode With Gain And Intriguing Flame Phenomenon.

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If a cathode is chemically treated with a common household chemical and put into an alcohol flame, electron current can flow to a positive anode that is placed inside of the flame. This creates a diode rectifier.

What is very intriguing though, is that electron current can still flow to the anode even when it appears to be well outside of the flame.

A grid placed within this space between the flame and anode can control the amount of current flow. This creates a triode with gain, that has similarities to a vacuum tube triode.

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[James Blomberg]

it would be interesting to make an audio amplifier out of those

[Alex Rodriguez]

I saw recently the kml wire thar works like antena xtracting ennergy from the air, im curious if we put one in the air one in the fire one in the fire and one in the earht...its like electro alchemy...Nice tkx for share :)

[svprovidence]

Next step - - - a regenerative receiver !

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[bugstalker]

Very Interesting. My guess as an electronics author - Thermonic Emission is caused by the heating of the Anode in the flame (as oppose to heating it directly or indirectly with a filament in a vacuum tube), and the flame is "eating" the nearby oxygen. It isn't necessarily the vacuum that causes the electrons to flow, as electrons flow fine in certain gasses (Neon for instance). Rather they must be "boiled off". Why a vacuum? Because OXYGEN burns out the filament.

[K0W0O0N0]

LOL First time i can hear a flame singing! ;-]

[clagwell]

Just to say you did it, you should attempt at least one QSL with that setup.

[Khavyet]

That really would be cool & dangerous at the same time. And that's everybody's cool :P

[btown2011]

flames can be used as speakers!

play music thorught the flame!

[peterm3964]

Flame is conductive .

[agrajag46]

This is very fascinating. I had no clue that an plasma such as the flame can act as part of a negative differential resistor.

I appreciate your website!