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RE: Green glow
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To: "'Tesla List'" <tesla@pupman.com>
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Subject: RE: Green glow
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From: Tesla List <tesla@stic.net>
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Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 17:33:28 -0600
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Approved: tesla@stic.net
From: Gomez[SMTP:gomez@netherworld.com]
Reply To: gomez@netherworld.com
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 1998 2:10 PM
To: Tesla List
Subject: Re: Green glow
Tesla List wrote:
> UV-excited florescence. Could I be generating "soft" x-rays? I always
> assumed the inert gas filling in light bulbs prevented x-ray tube
> action. Hmmm...
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> Greg
I was under the impression that most light bulbs "contained" only a hard
vacuum. And yes, with any voltage much over a few tens of kV, in a vacuum
it ain't difficult at all to generate X-rays. And given the voltage of a Tesla
coil, they aren't going to be soft, either, although the dose-rate,
determined by the current, won't be much. The tungsten of which bulb
filaments are made is just dandy for producing X-rays.
Tesla himself had a few "single electrode" x-ray tube designs which ran on
RF.
regards,
Gomez
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