what kind of energy is involved in producing a plasma ball/beam?
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A plasma is formed when the electrons of an atom are excited to the point of being disassociated with any particular atom.  This means that the energy of a plasma is contained in the motion of the particles and is therefore thermal energy (or kinetic energy of the individual particles).\n\nIt's usually produced with radio frequency radiation, so this energy would be contained in the electromagnetic field of the radiation.\n\nIf you're asking about trying to produce a plasma, generally you need a partial vacuum, surrounded by a set of coiled wire.  The current in the wire coil would need to be oscillated at radio frequencies (you'll need to check to see what frequency is ideal for the gas you're using).\n\nA plasma will not be sustained without constant energy input from the radio frequency radiation.
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The screen is coated with phosphorous and the tube itself is evacuated to form a vacuum.\n\nAn electron beam is produced by a heating element in one end of the tube.\n\nMagnets can focus the electron beam or make the beam spin.\n\nThere are vertical and horizontal plate capacitors in the tube that deflect the electron beam up/down or sideways.\n\nElectrical signals from a TV or computer control the focusing magnet and the charges on the capacitor to produce a picture on your screen.\n\nThis is pretty much a simplistic description of how they work.
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Generating static electricity.
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http://plasma-gate.weizmann.ac.il/PlasmaI.html\nhttp://www.plasmas.org/world.htm\nThe other sources on this page are nolonger valid.
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Electrons.\nPhotons.\nHeat.
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What plasma would you like? \nPlasma is just another state of matter.  Plasma is an ionized gas at levels of energy where atoms an molecules produce free electrons and where ions and electrons can coexists.  So in general plasma can be anywhere on earth since we can created most of that state everywhere like in in fluorescent or neon lights, welding, video displays and son on.\n\nAlso ultraviolet radiation from the Sun continuously produces a partially ionized plasma in the upper atmosphere known as the ionosphere. The ionosphere prevents harmful ultraviolet radiation from scorching the Earth. \n\nI hope that was useful.\n\nSS
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Suprise answer and correct! PLASMA\nPlasma is also the most common form of matter in the universe!
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Here is a link that will give you information on Ball Lightning:\n\nhttp://www.amasci.com/tesla/ballgtn.html\n\nAlso, go to Google...look under Images only...type in Ball Lightning...and you will see lots of pictures regarding Ball Lightning.  \n\nI hope this helps.
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If you mean plasma cutter, I can help.  A plasma cutter puts a high-frequency (RF) pulse from the copper tool tip to the metallic material to be cut.  This ionizes the air.  Then DC power is delivered to the arc.  The machine dumps a lot of power into the material, heating it up.  The small opening in the tip is for air which blows the molten material away.  In the case of aluminum, the air just pushes it out of the way.  In the case of steel, the air charge reacts with the iron to produce iron oxide, which further produces more heat than just the arc and helps cut the material.\n\nTraditional gas cutting with acetylene and Oxygen is similar, although i have never gas-cut aluminimum.  (?)  The oxy-acetylene is set up to heat the steel with a blue flame.  When a spot is melted through, you push the oxygen lever which lets a lot of oxygen out right onto the metal.  The ferrous (iron) material burns with the oxygen, cutting the steel.
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A particle accelerator sends a stream of particles through a very powerful electric field.
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I think what you are really asking is what different forms of energy convert to other forms of energy.  Mechanical energy can be converted to heat through friction.  Electrical energy can be converted to sound energy with the use of varying electrical currents and permanent magnets.  The splitting of atoms releases huge amounts of electromagnetic radiation of a huge variety, from electrons, to photons, heat, light, etc.  Light energy (photons) can interact with semiconductors in solar cells to produce electrical energy, also known as electromotive force.  I am sure someone has a comprehensive list of the primary energies that we know about.  \n\nIt may help, however, to discuss energy in terms of storing it.  Gas under high pressure in a closed cylinder has high potential energy.  The release of this pressure can cause thrust (like a rocket), or cause a super-sonic shock wave that can blow things up.  Certain chemicals have energy stored in them which is released through chemical reactions.  A rotating wheel has energy stored in the mass about the rotating axis, known as rotational momentum.  The magnetic field in an inductor, like a vehicle ignition coil stores energy in the field in the core, and releases it when the current to the coil is interrupted.  \n\nIn simpler terms, mechanical energy can be turned into heat, light, electromotive force, or pressure. Chemical energy can make heat, light, electromotive force, or pressure (not a complete list).  Atomic reactions (fission or fusion) release huge amounts of energy all across the electromagnetic spectrum.  Hope this is food for thought...\n\nSee a study of thermodynamics and entropy.  It would appear that all energy flow is headed in only one direction, always at a net loss.  See the link.
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There are a few items you will need:-\n1) A source of high voltage (to exicte the gas in your laser to emit photons). A readily availible item to do this would be the ballast (transformer) in a flourescent tube. This should get you up to between 700 to 1700 volts. It is preferabe if you have a supply closer to the upper end. This is dangerous so be sure to use appropriate precautions when working with high voltages.\n2) Choose the type of gas to excite. Gases to use include Carbon dioxide, helium, argon, neon, krypton - depending on the frequency you want from the laser. A nice big ruby could be used to make a really cool ruby laser - I could never afford to buy one though.\n3) build a laser tube - or better buy one from ebay. If you have glass blowing skills and make can make your own electrodes and embed them in the glass tube and make partial reflective mirrors on the end or the tube you can make one - but it's really tricky.\n4) fill your lser tube with the gas/gases you choose under reduced pressure.\n5) connect the electrodes to your power supply\n6) power it up....\nIt's as easy as that... uses the same basic principle to a flourescent tube, except that all the light from the partial reflector window is in phase.\n\nFor more detail I suggest you google something like "home made laser"
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A particle accelerator. It's a long tube (or sometimes a circle) with magnets in it that accelerate a particle to extremely high speeds. Then, there's a dead end and the atom splits apart into subatomic particles.
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nuclear fusion has occured on earth - fusion bombs have been around since the 50s and controlled fusion reaction have been achieved in lots of experimental fusion power plants. the energy put in is more than the energy gotten out, so it is not a power source\n\nwhen gas is really hot, some or even all of the electrons in the atoms have enough energy to escape the attraction\nof the nucleus, so a plasma is formed that has lots of free charge flying around.\n\nthe sun is mostly plasma, there might be some unionized gas, i doubt anything could be liquid or solid
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No...\nI don't know what it would be but I would not guess a plasma...
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You are referring to particle physics. In particle physics experiments beam of particles are accelerated and made to collide with a target, either another particle beam or a fixed target. Particle detectors around the collission point detect the debris of the collision which permits to deduce what happened.\n\nThe energy of these beams are usually given in units like GeV (giga electron volt) or MeV (mega electron volt). 1 MeV is the energy of a beam accelerated by a potential difference of 1 million volt. 1 GeV is 1000 times more.\n\nIntermediate energy refers to the energy of the particle beam. It is a somwhat subjective term.  High energy beams would be beams \nwith above 10 GeV. Low energy below 10 MeV. Intermediate energy everything in between.\n\nA scintillator detector is a type of particle detector. A particle traversing a scintillator counter will ionise the material and produce light usually in the blue and green regions. The photons are detected by photo amplifiers and transformed into an electrical signal. \n\nThe source leads to an introduction to particle physics.
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well, all plasma is is gas when all of the atoms are ionized, so it's not like something special happens, so nothing can really happen after it.  I mean, at a substance's coldest, the particles have no movement, and it's solid, then as temperatures increase they get more movement and can slide around each other, becoming liquid, and finally when it gets hot enough, the particles are moving so fast that they separate from each other and fly every which way, which is a gas.  No matter how hot it gets, the particles are still going to be seperate, and will just move faster and faster, still being a gas.  Plasma isn't even just solely a result of temperature, other conditions have to occur as well, and all of the atoms are ionized (meaning that they have complete electron shells and they do this by losing or gaining electrons. They are most stable when they have completely filled orbitals.)  Now you have a bunch of very fast ionized particles. Nothing more can really happen to them... hmmm, wait, actually, unless protons start shooting out and they become other elements... Who knows what happens at such extreme temperatures? Well with larger radioactive elements, there is decay that goes on over time converting one element into another, so maybe that would be influenced by temperature and pressure.  well there still wouldn't be another state of matter, it would just be different elements at either gas or plasma state.