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So a while back i realized you can create an extremely high energy hot plasma in the microwave consistently by taking a coil and streching it out and forming it into a loop with one gap on the sad. The ark that forms has huge amount of energy in a very small space. In the past it has melted a blob of borisilicate glass almost instantly fuzing the coil i to the glass under neath.
It has a tendency to grow into a large cloud of blasma that rises to the top of the microwave usually. Since this ball plasma is much larger the energy is spread out. Despite still being extremely hot its nowhere near the heat of the initial ark as it takes some time to heat glass to its melting point in this state.
So i had an idea. What would happen if i contained the arc under a pile of salt, in this case potassium salt. It should keep the plasma contained and due to maintaining a very small volume should retain the enormous heat i figured it would be more than hot enough to melt the salt but i wanted to try it out.
Attached is the video in the microwave itself. I will reply to this thread with various stills before and after of the setup showing the final results
Indeed. And while the plasma ball it produces is likely no different than if i used this method without the salt and allowed one to form it would appear thr plasma here is mu h more powerful. I suspect because the plasma remains small and confined it is also much much hotter.
I doubt the plasma from grapes, even when its small at first forms, would be as hot as this method. Mostly speculation though on my part but given the grapes moisture and higher resistance it makes sense to me.
