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Production of ball-lightning-like luminous balls by electrical discharges in silicon
Gerson Silva Paiva, Antonio Carlos Pavão, Elder Alpes de Vasconcelos et al., 2007. Physical Review Letters 98, 048501.
Arc discharges in pure silicon produce luminous balls lasting seconds with several properties of natural ball lightning, supporting the vaporisation and oxidation of silicon in the Abrahamson-Dinniss model.
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The laboratory analogue of the silicon model.
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Paiva, G. S., Pavão, A. C., Alpes de Vasconcelos, E., Mendes, O., & Felisberto da Silva, E. (2007). Production of ball-lightning-like luminous balls by electrical discharges in silicon. Physical Review Letters 98, 048501. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.048501
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Paiva, Gerson Silva et al.. “Production of ball-lightning-like luminous balls by electrical discharges in silicon.” Physical Review Letters 98, 048501 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.048501.