From: jgore@home.com
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: Re: Plasma, fusion and antimatter
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Please explain a "Hydrogen Plasma".

I can make plasma all day long (perhaps we talk of two different things).
I do it with Tesla Coils (5 foot arcs) and Van De Graf (2 foot arcs). Both are
high voltage generators.
Any way to use one of those to produce "Hydrogen Plasma"?




On 31 Dec 2000 19:51:18 -0500, Arthur Carlson <carlson@ipp.mpg.de> wrote:

>
>Mathew <mjp@kuentos.guam.net> writes:
>
>> Is plasma a conductor of electricity?
>
>Yes, and for many purposes a pretty good one. A hydrogen plasma has
>the same conductivity as copper at about 1.5 keV.
>
>--
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>
>Dr. Arthur Carlson
>Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
>Garching, Germany
>carlson@ipp.mpg.de
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