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For those who want to play around with the other form of non-dark matter:
"Plasmas have never been easy to create or exploit. But now you can make them in your own kitchen. ...
Kausik Das of the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and several colleagues who have found a way to create plasmas in an ordinary kitchen microwave. Their technique opens the way for a new generation to experiment with this exotic form of matter and perhaps to develop new applications.
They also demonstrate several interesting applications for home-brewed plasmas.
Details:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.06784
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 13 2018, @02:56PM (1 child)
Yeah, TFA describes plasma as "hard to make" but that is clearly false: shuffle your feet on a carpet and point your finger at the doorknob. Voilà: plasma!
In fact the article even says this, albeit indirectly: "One way to make plasmas is to break apart molecules using powerful electric fields." (spoiler alert: one way to make a strong electric field is to shuffle your feet on a carpet and then point at a doorknob).
Regardless, the procedure specified in the article sounds pretty cool. It sounds like the material will hang around for a while in the container and glow different colours as the various gases in air ionize. Neato.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday August 13 2018, @09:32PM
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