> The gas escaped as a cloud and STAYED LIT AND IONIZED. It held together for a > few seconds and made this awesome 60hz kinda deep hum. Quite loudly in a > menacing way. It was not the microwave, it was the gas humming obviously > acting as a speaker being modulated by the microwave under duress with a 60hz > hum in the signal. It was all kinda a purple cloud. It was rather unexpected > and scary so i shut it off in a scramble. But OH MY what a display.
Yeah, a microwave oven can keep a plasma ionized. There are many ways to start such a plasma, and you found one. The most common one is to put a small lit candle in the microwave. Check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgiaKTEZBCM Or just search for "lit candle microwave" or "microwave plasma balls" on youtube. - John -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/7E55A723-390B-4B29-BFBE-4FAEEA737790%40mac.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
