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What is a Spark Chamber?
Overview of the development of the spark chamber and a description of both function and uses.
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Why do wintergreen candies spark in the dark?
Short and accessible explanation of triboluminescence using crunching sugary sweets as an example.
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Super sparker
Make your own static electricity sparks with this fun experiment to try at home.
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Electric Blue Sparks
How to build various types of home-made static generators. Good for science projects!
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The Theater of Electricity
A site which looks at the science of sparks both big and small. It includes a video gallery, safety quiz and teacher resources.
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Sparks and lightning
An essay describing a slowed down bolt of lightning
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Donald A. Glaser
Donald Arthur Glaser (1916 - ) main research interest was the elementary particles of physics, particularly the strange particles. He examined and constructed a number of diffusion cloud chambers and ...
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