Re: Ball Lightning

[William Beaty <billb@ESKIMO.COM>]

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Brian Whatcott wrote:

> All we need is hydrogen atmosphere enrichment,
> a scintillation counter, and here we go again!


These things are as hot as a flame.  I've lost one pyrex cup measure and
many small pyrex custard cups during efforts to entertain colleagues.
Putting some honey and NaCl in the cup will produce brilliant flares of
sodium yellow light as the honey warms up and releases the salt crystals.
I'd heard about a "microwave sulphur" light source, but it doesn't work in
N2/O2, just creates very irritating fumes.


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