Michel Jullian says. > > 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 ;) > There was. It was that hidden underground coal fed to the power plant sending about a pound per KW-Hr feeding my LIG (Life Is Good, that is the brand name) Microwave oven. :-)
The light bulb setup makes a very good way to see the microwave "hot spots" as the table rotates. Fred > > 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 on, 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<< > >>
