From: jgore@home.com
Newsgroups: sci.physics.plasma
Subject: Re: Plasma, fusion and antimatter
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I guess I meant is there some kind of trick to it, other than just
pumping high voltage through a glass chamber of hydrogen.
I guess it's really that simple.

I was just worried about it exploding. I guess if air can't get to it
then it should be ok (no oxidation). I was just remembering what happened when my instructor
held a flame to a hydrogen balloon - kaboom!
Most of the neon tubes or other type of gas filled tubes we have lit up get fairly hot in
a short period of time.

Yes, I knew a Tesla Coil ionizes the air and lets electricity pass through it forming a plama conductor.
I just didn't know that hydrogen was such a good conductor:
"A hydrogen plasma has the same conductivity as copper at about 1.5 keV".
As I said above, most tubes get really hot. I assumed there was much resistance.
If hydrogen conducts better than air it might be worth some experimenting.
Perhaps it would make a better conduit for high voltage than wire or metal sheets, which
just glow purple and wastes a lot energy.

Also, wouldn't it make more sense to use a hydrogen plasma with palladium electrodes to try and bring
about cold fusion (not that there is such a thing)? This way you don't have to break the H2O bonds because it's already
just hydrogen. In fact, being ionized it's just protons! Also, it being a good conductor you could pump lots of high
voltage into it, which you can't do with water because of the skin effect. I'm probably wrong, it's probably a dumb
idea, but.... I guess I'll take this last paragraph to a more appropriate Newsgroup.

Ayways, thanks for your answer everyone! It helped me a lot.



>Is this a trick question? A hydrogen plasma is what you get when you
>ionize hydrogen. If you prefer, you can think of it as a non-bound
>collection of electrons and protons (or deuterons, or tritons). The
>reason I specified hydrogen is that the resistivity of a plasma
>depends on the charge state of the ions, and hydrogen atoms do not
>have more than one electron to lose. A plasma of some other element
>would have to be a bit hotter to have the same resistivity as 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"?
>
>Just do it in a chamber filled with hydrogen, rather than air. Seems
>like you should already know that a plasma is a conductor of
>electricity if you've been sending currents through them in the form
>of arcs.
>
>--
>To study, to finish, to publish. -- Benjamin Franklin
>
>Dr. Arthur Carlson
>Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
>Garching, Germany
>carlson@ipp.mpg.de
>http://www.ipp.mpg.de/~Arthur.Carlson/home.html
>
>As usual, if I am caught or killed, the Institute
>will disavow any knowledge of my actions.




>From: "Russ.Shaw" <rjshaw@iprimus.com.au>
>
>Put hydrogen in a glass tube with end-electrodes, and
>run some current. If you use DC and put holes in the
>negative electrode, protons (hydrogen ions) will fill
>the space behind the electrode.