Re: Making lightning with a thin wire

mrdarrett@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

Don't you just hate it when that happens!

What explosives did you use? Perchlorate and...???

Michael

The actual explosive was just an acetylene and oxygen mixture, chosen
for its cheapness and ease of handling. The gases were injected into a
combustion chamber (6 inch x 3 foot cylinder). Shear plate on one
end, fuse on the other, gases in between.

One of the other pieces of equipment that we designed was an Ion
conductivity gauge which allowed the researchers to measure the speed
of the combustion wave as it propagated down the cylinder by measuring
the change in conductivity of electrodes inserted into the cylinder
down its length.

Blakely
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Blakely LaCroix
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

"The best adventure is yet to come"

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