Blue and White Lightning Globes

Two museum-grade 12 inch plasma globes running side-by-side. Both globes are filled with the same amount of krypton gas running on nearly-identical power supplies. What's wrong with this picture? The globe on the right has been treated with iodine vapor and it's color has changed to a bright blue-white or a violet-white color and it now looks like it was filled with xenon gas (which makes a blue plasma) instead of krypton gas that normally looks pure white. The globe on the left contains pure krypton gas and still forms its traditional-color white plasma. This is a physics experiment with two experimental gas mixtures running inside recycled glass globes with electrodes that were both designed by Bill Parker.
Apparently ionized krypton gas is no longer always white in a plasma globe. Who knew? There is no xenon in the globe on the right, and the camera footage has not been altered in any way.
Plasma enthusiasts please note that we may now have a way to create the effect of expensive xenon with less-expensive krypton flavored with iodine.
Music: Orbital by T. Orlando

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Science & Technology

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• Blue
• and
• White
• Lightning
• Globes

[FireRunner905]

nice

[teslasintern]

Very cool the blue and white would be ideal for Penn State!