In reply to Axil Axil's message of Sun, 12 Aug 2012 18:48:37 -0400: Hi, [snip] >The most frequently introduced form of the ideal gas law is > >PV = nRT > >where *P* is the pressure of the gas, *V* is the volume of the gas, *n* is >the amount of substance of gas (also known as number of moles), *T* is the >temperature of the gas and *R* is the ideal, or universal, gas constant, >equal to the product of Boltzmann's constant and Avogadro's constant. > >For the Papp engine, R and n are constant
When the plasma forms, the atoms are ionized thus by definition creating an ion + at least one electron (possibly more depending on the degree of ionization). That's at least 2 particles where there was originally only one, so "n" is not constant. When the plasma recombines to a gas, "n" changes again, but in the other direction. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/project.html
