Posted earlier:
>
> The arc drops the transformer output to 1,000 volts or less at 0.06 amps
> so there wasn't enough input energy to account for the pressure rise.
>
Mizuno's experiments come to mind here, except the discharge is to the water
pool surface is though the air (N2, O2, Ar, CO2, ) and H2O vapor rather than in
the water.
Mizuno's early tungsten in water arc experiments (1998) by comparison:
The ion energy bombarding the pool surface is set by the cathode
fall potential which is probably not more than 150 volts or less.
This means that a proton (or some deuterons in the water)can penetrate into
an oxygen, nitrogen, or argon electron cloud setting up Auger Effect "cascades"
by proton/deuteron capture of inner shell electrons with an energy release
that can substantially multiply the energy input.
Fred
