St. Elmo's Fireworks
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In my posts I have talked about many particularly luminous natural phenomena, such as will-o'-the-wisps, pillars of light, green flashes, different rare types of rainbows and lightning, and now St. Elmo's fires, but this is the only phenomenon that you can touch and smell and we can replicate it too.
Saint Elmo's fireworks on airplane windshields
Charles Darwin wrote about the Saint Elmo games in his diary about the trip aboard the Beagle ship, around the world, "everything is on fire, the sky with Lightning, the water with luminous particles (he was referring to fluorescent algae) and even the ship's masts have blue flames; Darwin called them flames because in 1832 he didn't know a better word, but now we call them corona discharges and with a tesla coil you can replicate it.
Image created by me in playgroundai
Corona discharges or San Telmo games occur when there is a very large electrical potential difference between two objects, in this case between the coil electrode and the finger, there is a voltage difference and in the case of what Darwin saw there was a much bigger difference in voltage between the clouds and the ship, there are too many electrons accumulating on the electrode or in the storm clouds and they want to escape, since electrons have a negative charge they don't like to be crowded together because opposite poles attract and poles the same repel each other.
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