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12/28/2006

How to: Make Plasma in Your Microwave Using a Grape

This followup to the how to make plasma in your microwave tutorial, provides us with an easier way to create the effect by using just a single grape -- rum and coke optional. Video after the jump.
Plasma typically takes the form of neutral gas-like clouds or charged ion beams, but may also include dust and grains (called dusty plasmas). They are typically formed by heating and ionizing a gas, stripping electrons away from atoms, thereby enabling the positive and negative charges to move freely
(Thanks, Jett)

This entry was posted on 12/28/2006 04:36am and is filed under Science, Video .
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1
holy sh**, im gonna go try this and hopefully not kill myself.
2
That is one of the coolest projects I've ever seen, going down to my 24-hour WalMart super store to pick up some grapes :)
3
So, why didn't my microwave come with a "WARNING: Do not cook grapes in this device! Poisonous gases may occur." sticker.
4
Cool, I like the glass trick :P Going to try this at school :D
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Thats a really cool trick, wonder how he discovered it? Too much time and too many grapes I think.. Wasnt a different version of this project featured on techeblog a while ago using instead a candle?
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