Re: Spark Gap Gasses Experiment

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Subject: Re: Spark Gap Gasses Experiment
From: jim.fosse-at-bjt-dot-net (Jim Fosse) (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 20:16:33 -0600
Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

On Fri, 04 Sep 1998 14:52:23 -0600, Tesla List <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>, you
wrote:

>Original Poster: Jim Lux <James.P.Lux-at-jpl.nasa.gov> 
>
>> 
>> This is very interesting!  My argon gap also leaves the copper a clean but
>> pink color.  Much like freshly etched copper.  If nitrogen could be used to
>> make an inert gap, it would provide a gas which would me much easier to
>> find :-))  I believe that you can burn a candle or other flammable
>> substance in an enclosed space to remove the oxygen. 
> 
>This technique (burning something to remove the O2) has been mentioned
>before. I don't recall if it was in Craggs & Meek or in Fruengel.
>
Just seal the container that the gap is in. Then run the gap for a few
minutes - the cathode spot will use up the O2. You then have a
nitrogen gap.

	cheers,

	jim