Re: strange ligthning lamp

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Original poster: "tmoorezz" <tmoorezz-at-adelphia-dot-net> 

Yes it is most likely that the inside of the glass is coated to tint the
colors of the plasma, but if the colors appear randomly through out the
entire lamp and not in the same location then I don't know what it would be.
To produce purple you need Nitrogen, to produce pink you need helium-neon or
hydrogen, and for the green you would need argon or cooper vapor, and since
theses gases would be in the same glass container the would mix together and
not give distinct areas of different colors. Most likely the gas inside is
only xenon, which produces a wide spectrum of colors. I wanted to make a
comment on your hookah but J Dow beat me too it!

Nolan Moore

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 > Original poster: brent meyer <res095fx-at-verizon-dot-net>
 >
 > The color is not due to the gas, which is Argon, but to a multicolored
 > phosphor coating applied to the inside of the vessel.  The green color is
 > created by synthetic Willemite, a zinc silicate mineral.
 >
 >  > From: "Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>
 >  > Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:59:11 -0700
 >  > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 >  > Subject: strange ligthning lamp
 >  > Resent-From: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 >  > Resent-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 18:24:40 -0700
 >  >
 >  > Original poster: Vladimiro Mazzilli <mazvla-at-iol.it>
 >  >
 >  > Hi all,
 >  > Last week I went in Miami for work and I've seen a unusual plasma lamp.
 >  > The lamp was in glass completely clear and formed as an ellissoid., I
 >  > dont' know if there was a second bulb inside. The wirling discharge
 >  > started from the base of the lamp and extingued on the glass.
 >  > I wish to know the characteristic of this lamp, if someone have seen a
 >  > similar device because I have never seen a green discharge in any gas.
 >  > On the base there were a potenciometer thath I think is useful for
 >  > regulate the level of sound when sound
 >  > play rithmic, or the frquency of P/S
 >  >
 >  > Thank at all. The photo is at
 >  > http://hot-streamer-dot-com/temp/Mazzilli/Dscn2869b.jpg
 >  >
 >  >
 >
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