Re: Plasma Balls with C60

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Original poster: Jan Wagner <jwagner-at-cc.hut.fi> 


On Tue, 6 Apr 2004, Tesla list wrote:
 > Original poster: "john cooper" <tesla-at-tesla-coil-dot-com>
 > I have located a source for C60, buckminsterfullerine, which may be just
 > the material to use to produce plasma balls.  But it's a lot more expensive
 > than a burning tire although that could depend on what tire you choose to
 > burn.  1 gram of 99.5% is around 250.00, 5 grams of same is around
 > 700.00.  If a few others want to split some of this I should be able to
 > hook us up.

MOT/NST + small closed glass vessel (beer bottle?) with helium atmosphere
+ carbon electrodes, run for a while, scratch off the generated lint from
the inner walls of the vessel, it's various carbon compounds with plenty
of 'Buckminster Fuller' fullerenes C44, C60, C70.

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/buckyballs.html
(first google hit, more about buckyball crystal growing, but it vaguely
explains the setup)

Lot's of fullerens for nearly no bucks ($). So, unless there's something
unexplainably magical about using _precisely_ C60... ;-))

just a thought,
  - Jan

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