How Will A Plasma Globe REACT In Water?

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these plasma globes they're pretty fun it's basically a tiny Tesla coil inside of a glass bulb really a funny shaped glass bulb that specifically goes right over the Tesla coil you add your hand as a path electricity and all those little tendrils move toward it here's the basic idea we've got a couple different sizes of plasma balls a fun little lamp toy and we're going to play around with them I want to see what happens if we play around with them in a few ways what happens if we put them underwater put them to your foil can we use them to start a fire our magnets gonna do anything to them we might have to break one open as well Kalle was telling me that they're usually full of neon and maybe a slight mix-up some of the other noble gases Krypton and argon or the other ones that you can sometimes see in there those are some of the noble gases that would be the elements that show up on the far right side of the periodic table there are gases that are not very reactive because their outer valence shell is perfectly full which means they don't want to give away or take any new electrons so they're very unreactive to other elements but they are fairly reactive to the right kind of electric exposure which is why you hear something called a neon sign that's because they fill glass tubes with neon gas and then we run electricity through it and it gives you this very particular orange II pink colour that which you can see really nicely this might also be neon it might be only the other colors but the different gases all glow different colors that's what they've got inside and probably not much it might be a low-pressure system as well it's set to a near atmospheric pressure okay so not very low so today we've got all of these and we want to try some fun experiments with them grants done some experiments with these he had a giant one I think he did some fun experiments with that and then he smashed it with a hammer so Nate's first idea was to put one in water and that sounds really cool put the glass in the water just the glass certainly likes to go to the glass now I should say we are using just tap water here this is not distilled or anything they're traveling differently now yeah lime then that one are travelling much slower than theirs slower and thicker line following the drops of water like they can't decide where to go also new fun trick oh yeah it's like leaving a little trail always your hand now water is allowing that current to stay basically before we look at the big ones let's talk about the tiny ones for a second these little ones come apart really easily so this tube just so you know is still completely sealed but in here you have what's basically steel wool I think it's just a bunch of metal mesh and then I think some kind of metal has been applied to the glass itself down at the end oh it is it's a baby Tesla zap zap snap that's getting my finger real nice yeah but now you can see my skin smoking good there so I want to do it a lot I did lick the desk top Tesla coil once don't do that there you go this way it doesn't hurt me actually right before it forms the arc a very small dimple appears in the water see that sucking everything towards that and shooting it down okay oh there we go yeah it's point-like dust particles towards it and then shooting them down yeah Wow just driving it down [Music] so when you put the Tesla coil into that glass bulb that's got all of those noble gases it actually sort of gives those a lecture on the path to follow which is that tentacle that you see that's constantly moving I can't help but wonder if that's what we're seeing is sort of that line of electrons without the big glass ball and noble gases very fun little accidental discovery Oh put that on let's plot some of the metal shavings and take a look is it just one piece okay like a super coarse grit steel wool I think that helps the electrical connection in full contact with all of that in there I wanted to see what result we get with the larger one okay go for it now I'm curious if like the whole things pink it's actually behaving pretty much normally doesn't really care it does it's like I can't find the area your finger isn't more interesting than the water already trying to just fine yeah fine the water and it's coated in cinnamon the aluminum conducts electricity better than the finger but if it's just the sheet of aluminum it doesn't have anywhere to go this is looking for a path to travel but if you touch the aluminum as Cal just demonstrated no it has a direction and look I can even just if I get close to it so I'm not touching it yet but you can see that one of the tendrils like focuses quite a bit you know not there I mean some of the tendrils are still pointing at it and sort of staying to it but they're not really going anywhere can't absorb much charge but then if you actually touch the foil it will jump and you saw how it was making an arc to the water that can also happen to your finger or if you don't want it to zap you your finger in hurt can hold another piece our camera guys monitors having a little bit of trouble with this right now his monitor does not like the electromagnetic something oh okay gonna die oh no mark did we break your monitor what the criterion off back on again oh wait all right let's not do that again let's do it again let's not break the monitor again all right we can try and burn some of this of course we are Oh keep it flat and just have it in contact with it and I'm gonna see if I can burn right through the paper you got the flat of it you had actually quite a bit going there but look at that neat fun tricks with a flat smooth globe want to put an entire one under water and turn off sure yes risk of shock is only as much as three or four batteries battery housing I think is not waterproof batteries I think you're gonna get surrounded by water cavity is now filling with water I'm actually surprised it's still doing anything yes those batteries have just got to be swimming at this point rising Li continues to function despite having being submerged turn it off for a second okay well you're prepping that I want to see if magnets do anything to them so I've got a magnet here so far that this distance the field seems unaffected here it is but then it's also conductive and I'm touching it so let's see if I'm just gonna set this and take my hand away it's about like the foil there's a tiny tiny bit that's gathering right around it but until I get my hand there oh there's a metal filings on the outside of this magnet and the plasma is igniting them oh well it's certainly doing something with the power supply or pull it all back of electricity yeah so my plan won't work quite the same but we can't still push this down into the water so once it's surrounded it just connects well it was just connecting to the neck down at the bottom it started to move back to the rest of the globe a little bit well I want to change things up a little bit and just to see if it makes any difference I want to change the conductivity of the water I'm gonna add a lot of salt not a lot I don't think it's actually gonna change too much but I just had to test if having it be more conductive will do anything or not start plasma ball I'm just gonna bring this near the water I think it's it's about the same I think it might be sending a little bit more charge down into it that is cool though with the salt water on the glass if I touch any part of it like larger portions of it light up that is pink it's not just trailing after your finger it's like you've made tie-dye so I think it's working the same the only difference is that the cinnamon no longer sinks as well because the salinity of the water makes it so the cinnamon is more buoyant in it so now I'm trying to drive something that floats down into the water instead of something that sinks so about the same pretty much the same reaction with salt water in tap water tap water may already have enough in it that it just is going to work like that all right just seeing what happens if I pour some vapor down on it it's neat I don't think it's doing much it looks like it could make a cool photo maybe a little smoking plasma ball but let's go for actual liquid nitrogen liquid it's not even registering does not seem to do anything well okay nothing so if we want a more likely breaking of the glass I can just take this and turn upside down so it's in contact with the liquid nitrogen and of course it doesn't want to stay creating a perfect seal because it's pressurized tempered glass yeah just the shape well I'm gonna say that being cold there's not much effect applies on the ball you I did oh that's cool though it makes your fingerprints go spiky look at us but it looks like little sun rays well let's break one okay three two one and here it yeah do things it feel kind of going this one's like frozen in place now like yeah because of the water droplets it like only wants to go to those and so the little medusa fibers aren't going anywhere they're just like these are my spots these are currently set on sound mode which makes them react to sound this one's more sensitive and they seem to react to lower notes better [Applause] guys despite our best efforts today's experiments were surprisingly gentle we still have two larger working plasma globes there anything else you want to see us do with these let us know in the comments below tell us to get bigger ones cuz it's thought it'd be really fun and then tell me some way I can involve my torch thanks again to our sponsor Kiwi coat to order your own project kit and get 20% off your order click the link down in the description or go to Kiwi code comm /tko our twenty guys that's not all we've always got more to see click the box at the top to check out our most recent video and we'll see you in the next one doc you then

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Length: 13min 44sec (824 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 30 2020