Re: Vegetable Semiconductors

On 10 Aug 2006 17:57:21 GMT, <aborgman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

John Woodgate <jmw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

13A is it? I don't there is a mains line in any house in the USA that is
less than 15A.

Here in AZ, you can have 50A circuits for clothes dryers and electric
ovens and stove-tops... and 100A for air conditioning.

...Jim Thompson
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