From: "Louis St-Onge" <louis.st-onge@nrc.ca>
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: Re: Plasma Quench Technology
Organization: National Research Council of Canada
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To detect H^- ions, I would suggest laser-induced photodetachment. This
technique has been extensively used in studies of H^- ion sources. See in
particular the many papers by M. Bacal and collaborators.

L.S.

"Hion solar" <hionsolar@aol.com> wrote in message
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>
> I am particularly interested in your comments about the H(-) ion and
postulated
> chain reactions using this ion to dissociate water in the excited state by
> electron donation. We would like to have a way to "see" this ion in the
> reaction flow-field and in the "afterglow" region where the separation
occurs.
>
> Thanks and Regards....Walt Pyle