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| DavidAlfa:
--- Quote from: tom66 on September 07, 2023, 11:03:21 am ---Flames can also be used to rectify current. --- End quote --- I knew flames conducted electricity, but not they rectified it! |
| amyk:
--- Quote from: DavidAlfa on September 07, 2023, 12:36:36 pm --- --- Quote from: tom66 on September 07, 2023, 11:03:21 am ---Flames can also be used to rectify current. --- End quote --- I knew flames conducted electricity, but not they rectified it! --- End quote --- I'm not very familiar with the physics, but I suspect the effect is similar to a vacuum diode. |
| BrokenYugo:
--- Quote from: DavidAlfa on September 07, 2023, 12:36:36 pm --- --- Quote from: tom66 on September 07, 2023, 11:03:21 am ---Flames can also be used to rectify current. --- End quote --- I knew flames conducted electricity, but not they rectified it! --- End quote --- You can apparently even insert a grid and make a triode, interesting stuff. There are some vids on YouTube from a few different people if you look around. Some good reading here. http://www.sparkbangbuzz.com/flame-amp/flameamp.htm |
| coppice:
--- Quote from: amyk on September 07, 2023, 01:41:13 pm --- --- Quote from: DavidAlfa on September 07, 2023, 12:36:36 pm --- --- Quote from: tom66 on September 07, 2023, 11:03:21 am ---Flames can also be used to rectify current. --- End quote --- I knew flames conducted electricity, but not they rectified it! --- End quote --- I'm not very familiar with the physics, but I suspect the effect is similar to a vacuum diode. --- End quote --- Yeah. A vacuum diode makes a cloud of electrons. A flame makes a cloud of ions. They are all charged particles, which will only drift in a particular direction in an electric field. As someone else said, you can use a grid to make a triode from a flame. You can also put plates around the flame and wiggle the ions with an audio signal, making a loudspeaker. |
| SiliconWizard:
In the end it's just polarized dark fluid. :popcorn: |
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