Self-pumped vacuum capacitor effect

An attempt to reclaim a lost Nikola Tesla idea-sequence! The air pressure within a tiny metal-walled chamber full of glowing plasma slowly falls. Air turns to solid oxides/nitrides, leaving vacuum behind. It's a "Tesla coil" vacuum pump with no moving parts. Nickky T. apparently knew about this, and used the effect to pump down his x-ray tubes in the days before other vacuum pumps (Sprengel, etc.,) had any hope of reaching the required low pressures for X-rays. Other stuff at http://amasci.com/weird/wtext.... Handheld Tesla coil from http://www.teachersource.com/E... , or search eBay for "violet wand."

Author: wbeaty
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