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Long-living plasmoids from an atmospheric water discharge

A. Versteegh, K. Behringer, U. Fantz et al., 2008. Plasma Sources Science and Technology 17(2), 024014.

Capacitor discharges over a water surface make ball-like plasmoids up to 0.2 m across lasting some hundreds of milliseconds; electron temperatures of 2,000–5,000 K; visible light mainly from calcium hydroxide band emission, attributed to chemiluminescence.

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The water-discharge laboratory analogue.

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Versteegh, A., Behringer, K., Fantz, U., Fussmann, G., Jüttner, B., & Noack, S. (2008). Long-living plasmoids from an atmospheric water discharge. Plasma Sources Science and Technology 17(2), 024014. https://doi.org/10.1088/0963-0252/17/2/024014
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