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Ball lightning, plasma, toothpicks rock!

DaSilva · 2006-04-04 02:48:00

Plasma is the 4th state? Wow never heard of this stuff, but this was cool. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3851430460146324700&pl=false Just for a laugh, grapes are mental.

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Plasma is the 4th state? Wow never heard of this stuff, but this was cool.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3851430460146324700&pl=false

Just for a laugh, grapes are mental.

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Yep - it's a highly ionised gas state with its own properties, the magnetic properties being particularly interesting.

Its generally considered that unraveling the heat transfer properties of plasmas to create a heat engine will make controlled fusion reactions possible.

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