Natural Science Forum / Physics / Fusion / February 2008

Having failed to even ionise low pressure hydrogen using an induction coil
with an interruptor I'm building an RF oscillator out of the same
components. It is going to have a small transmitting mullard valve (used but
tested working) as the active element, a 11 turn coil, a split ...

A simple coil which is part of a tuned circuit can contain a plasma (there
is no force along the axis so it won't get sqeezed out) and once the plasma
starts fusion reactions the plasma expands against the containment and
induces a current in the coil.

The hydrogen in the bulb was adsorbed by the palladium metal and as a result
the metal glowed white hot. There was no oxygen in the bulb.
The palladium had been previously baked in hydrogen to remove oxygen.
A coiled coil of thin palladium wire was used.

It the Elmfire software free for students? Does it work on PC Windows or
Linux system?
If it is free, where can I download it?

The mean free path of an ion depends on the pressure at low pressures this
in much longer than at high pressures.
In an electric field an ion pickes up energy from the field and the longer
it can fly before hitting another ion the higher the energy it can aquire.