On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 11:18:55 -0700 (PDT), dlzc <dlzc1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Dear John C. Polasek:
>
>On Jun 19, 5:19 pm, John C. Polasek <jpola...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>...
>> In any case, it's moot, all this talk of physical
>> chemistry and bonds, because the last dielectric
>> anyone would suggest would be WATER!
>> Water? Are you kidding?
>
>I was sitting here looking at the picture I have stored on my desktop,
>and realized I could give you an example for you to consider:
>http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2006/physics-astron/hottest-z-output.html
>
>You can get a really high resolution image of that picture (and it
>makes a terrible desktop image... really hard to find icons in).
>
>That "discharge array" occurs in deionized water. It does not form
>single bolts from point to point, but is forced to spread out. Ask
>your "common sense" how that could be.
>
>David A. Smith
Courtesy response: Oh wow.
This is a bit out of my expertise. Call me an old fuss-budget, but I
consider water as a dielectric as strictly demode'.
Let's try to find another tack.
John Polasek


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