Re: WARNING !! (HYDROGEN GAPS)

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• Subject: Re: WARNING !! (HYDROGEN GAPS)
• From: "Bill the arcstarter" <arcstarter-at-hotmail-dot-com> (by way of Terry Fritz <twf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 17:44:09 -0700
• Approved: twf-at-verinet-dot-com

Paul Marshall wrote:
>If anyone is using a DC current to power a coil beware. Direct 
>current can turn your gap into a plasma torch (No Oxygen required). 
>Hydrogen is normally diatomic and has a very small nuclear radius. 
>When pure hydrogen gas is passed through a DC arc (providing 
>there is enough power)it will become monotomic (VERY 
>EXOTHERMIC). Gap temperatures could reach 50000 C. Goodby 
>gap, goodby floor and anything else that happens 

Again - this is a question of energy transfer.  You will only get out of 
the hydrogen recombination what you put into it.

But this being said - I wonder if a H gap would suffer form more erosion 
due to higher temps (caused by this recombination) than, say, an argon 
or air/N gap?

-Bill

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