Re: Vegetable Semiconductors

In message <ebf20v$754$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dated Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Georg Acher <acher@xxxxxxxxx> writes

Why? This is a popular party trick and school experiment (done by the teacher of course). It works very well with pickles (green light) and sausages (yellow light and very ugly smell). The sausage light should be done in free air anyway, as some types like to explode ;-)

European mains produces a large enough current to cause really energetic explosions, enough to cause injury, particularly to eyes. The electrolysed vegetable has negative resistance, so the current is usually large enough to cause the fuse or circuit breaker to operate. That may be OK with sissy Continental 6 A supplies, (;-) but in UK we have 13 A supplies, making a BIG bang more likely.
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