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Re:Plasma generation by household microwave oven by godelski on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @09:58PM (#26642745)
I guess where I'm confused is that the process has already been well documented. Far more than actually needs to be, because a basic description[0][1] is something the average hacker/maker/whateverwearecallingitthesedays could build one in an afternoon. There's hundreds of youtube videos and this has been featured in Make and plenty of maker magazines for decades.

[0] Place a glass container in the microwave, pull a vacuum inside the container, press start

[1] For added reliability purge with argon and inject slight amounts of oxygen. I mean slight

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Re:Plasma generation by household microwave oven by madaxe_again on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @02:25AM (#26644100)
It’s much easier than faffing around with vacuums. Take the metal foot and case off a tea light. Light the tea light, place on suitable saucer in microwave. Nuke. Plasma. Useless plasma, but plasma nonetheless.
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Re:Plasma generation by household microwave oven by exmadscientist on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @05:08AM (#26645025)
It's even easier than that, if you can get your hands on carbon fiber. Microwaving any piece of carbon fiber will immediately give you very unstable and very useless plasma.
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