What do your two wild cats conclude from this nice experiment Fred?
Anything going on on the inside and outside metal parts BTW?
and in about
60 seconds the water at the bottom is boiling.
Unbelievable, there must be a fraud, some hidden source of power ;)
Michel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Frederick Sparber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "vortex-l" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: A blast in Ohio
In the words of the late -great test pilot, Scott Crossfield,
"one good experiment is better that ten thousand opinions".
Scott died with his boots in the crash of his Cessna 210 near Atlanta last
week.
He was 84.
So I put a brand new (filament intact) 40 watt bulb in a water glass with
enough water at the bottom to cover the lamp base (slight float)
and zapped it in the ~ 850 watt microwave. In about 3 seconds
it glows blue-white red-orange and white without exploding and in about
60 seconds the water at the bottom is boiling.
Fred
Is this Bill Beaty that wrote this?
http://www.hhydr.com/light-bulb-explosion-1538416.html
William J Beaty Oct 18, 2004 14:07
I stumbled across the explanation under a Britannica entry for Argon.
Manufacturers put argon in light bulbs as an inert fill gas.
Unfortunately
argon has a low breakdown voltage, so if the filament burns out, an arc
will leap across the broken ends. So, manufacturers put some nitrogen
in the argon to raise the breakdown voltage.
But sometimes an arc will strike across the broken filament ends.
When this occurs, the normal "yellow" light bulb color will turn
brilliant blue-white for a moment (until the filament is vaporized
by the arc, and the arc quenches out.
But sometimes the arc continues for too long. Or perhaps the
manufacturers got the gas mixture wrong. The hot arc will cause
the argon pressure in the bulb to skyrocket. The bulb will burst
with a bang.
(A similar thing occurs if you put a bulb in a microwave oven for
a couple of minutes. The hot plasma inside the bulb will vaporize
the filament parts, then cause the bulb to explode via overpressure<<
