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When a wire is suspended just above a white card and electrically exploded, the marks blasted into the card show regularly spaced transverse striations. This phenomenon has been reported throughout history, but never completely understood. Following is a description of the process for setting up such an experiment.[[Category:Scientific Paper]]
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When a wire is suspended just above a white card and electrically exploded, the marks blasted into the card show regularly spaced transverse striations. This phenomenon has been reported throughout history, but never completely understood. Following is a description of the process for setting up such an experiment.
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[[Category:Scientific Paper|exploding wire experiments]]

Latest revision as of 10:24, 1 January 2017

Scientific Paper
Title Exploding Wire Experiments
Author(s) Richard A Ford
Keywords experiment, exploding wires
Published 1993
Journal Electric Spacecraft Journal
Number 8
Pages 28-32

Abstract

When a wire is suspended just above a white card and electrically exploded, the marks blasted into the card show regularly spaced transverse striations. This phenomenon has been reported throughout history, but never completely understood. Following is a description of the process for setting up such an experiment.