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Subject: Re: Electrons
Date: Jan 14, 10:52 pm
Poster: Tom Ligon

On Jan 14, 10:52 pm, Tom Ligon wrote:

>I have a question. Do the electrons in a fusor form an electron cloud around the reaction zone or do they travel radially through the fusor like the ions?

Those formed in the center move radially, frequently in a thin blue beam, but tend to hit the wall and stay there if the chamber is metal-walled.

It is possible to bias the outer grid a little positive and emit electrons to it, or create electrons from the glow discharge, in which case the electrons go to the outer grid and oscillate there for a while. This makes the glow discharge process brighten substantially. Magnetic fields greatly enhance this effect.

Tom