# Paiva 2007: 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. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. The laboratory analogue of…

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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.

**Ball lightning** Articledoi: **[10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.048501](https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.048501)** Checked against the original0

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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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