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    How to make plasma in your microwave.

    This is actually neat in a really dumb science dork sort of way.

    How to: Make Plasma in Your Microwave
    http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/how-to-make-plasma-in-your-microwave
    One of our readers just sent in an interesting clip that shows you how to make plasma using a microwave, cork, and a match. What are your thoughts? Video after the jump. Plasma typically takes the form of neutral gas-like clouds or charged ion beams, but may also include dust and grains (called dusty plasmas). They are typically formed by heating and ionizing a gas, stripping electrons away from atoms, thereby enabling the positive and negative charges to move freely One of our readers just sent in an interesting clip that shows you how to make plasma using
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    Yeah, I remember this trick from a usenet post in the mid-90s. It was supposed to be a way of making ball lightning...sounded interesting, but I never tried it since they neglected the part with the glass globe.
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      Yet another cool thing to do with an old microwave.

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