Re: Discharge impedance questions.

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• Subject: Re: Discharge impedance questions.
• From: "David Trimmell" <davidt-at-pond-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>)
• Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 08:00:53 -0700
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Hi, Robert Cressler corrected me earlier, N2O2 is not Nitrous Oxide. You
are probably correct or at least close to what is actually happening in the
HF HV discharge of a TC in air. Yeah, N2O (Nitrous Oxide) is easily
produced from heating NH4(NO3)2 (Ammonium Nitrate), I believe I used steel
wool as the catalyst.

Regards,

David Trimmell

At 03:38 PM 3/16/00 , you wrote:
>Original Poster: "Alex Crow" <user-at-alexcrow.clara-dot-net> 
>
>David
>
>Since O3 is so reactive, shouldn't
>
>3O2         ===>  2O3
>403+3N2 ===> 6N02
>
>be a valid reaction for all Ozone-producing discharges, or would this only
>occur
>with the higher-current and temperature discharge at the gap rather than
at the
>output arc? N202 I rememeber producing at school by controlled heating of
>Ammonium Nitrate (think it was with H2SO4 as a catalyst)... but perhaps
there's
>some way it could be indirectly produced by an arc... And what about NO3 -
even
>nastier and a real health hazard?
>
>Alex
>
>
>
>
>Tesla List wrote:
>
>> Original Poster: "David Trimmell" <davidt-at-pond-dot-net>
>>
>> Hi Max,
>>
>> You are quite correct in assuming "O" is in the form of "O2", but N2O2
>> (Nitrous Oxide, aka Laughing gas) is not produced. O3 is produced but is
>> short lived as it is very reactive (the very hazard).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> David Trimmell
>>
>
>

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