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- From: datkatz@scott.skidmore.edu (david atkatz)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Jacob's Ladders (was Re: What are those things called...)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.201747.18420@scott.skidmore.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 20:17:47 GMT
- References: <1992Jul24.193306.23657@samba.oit.unc.edu>
- Organization: Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
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- So far, in describing the operation of a Jacob's Ladder,
- two people have described the rising of the heated,
- ionized air as the mechanism for the heavenward rise
- of the spark. This is what I, too, have always believed.
- Recently, however, I was told that a Jacob's Ladder will
- work in the horizontal position as well, and thus this
- simple mechanism is not what causes the spark to move
- from narrow to wide gap. I have never tried the experiment.
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- Would some Ladder-possesing soul care to try this and
- report back?
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- David
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