From: Steven Leffler <leffler@physics.ubc.ca>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: Re: Plasma globe
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 20:05:12 -0800
Organization: University of British Columbia, Physics Department
Message-ID: <34D2A2F8.2ED5FB07@physics.ubc.ca>
References: <34D09806.3590@pophost.eunet.be>


Wilmert De Bosscher wrote:

> Quite some years now, you can find in the shops a kind of plastic
> globe in which one central electrode is present. If the thing is
> switched on (working on batteries) plasma "plumes" are visible and these
> can be attracted to one side if the globe is touched from the outside.
>
> How does this work? Is the globe under vacuum and which gas is used?
> Is that an RF source in the center?

This is a FAQ. Try going to Deja News
(http://w4.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml), and doing a "power search" of
their "old" article database on the phrase "plasma globe". Include the
quotes. You'll find the most useful articles in sci.physics.plasma and
the sci.electronics groups.

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