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your link is not working, seems you linked to a cached version on your computer. I think i know what your talking about though. You want to keep the projectile intact. This one is so low power its not practical to use a actual projectile. Some railgun's use plasma armeture's. That means the material (usually foil) is vaporized, and the plasma provides the conduction path, which pushes the projectile. If you are going to do that small of a one stick with foil. You will get a ball of sparks going one direction. It's much more impressive looking though =p
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If you copy this link to your it should work: it's from google cache. I still don't understand why it has to be vaporized instead of just using a conductive projectile. Is the plasma just for show? :)
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It doesn't have to be vaporised, anything conductive would work. I guess since he was firing a slither of al foil, the plasma was unavoidable. I've never built or done much research on rail guns, but I think most rail gunners try to avoid the arcing and plasma because its corrodes the rails.
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Camel wrote ...
It doesn't have to be vaporised, anything conductive would work. I guess since he was firing a slither of al foil, the plasma was unavoidable. I've never built or done much research on rail guns, but I think most rail gunners try to avoid the arcing and plasma because its corrodes the rails.
Ok thanks :) I think i will avoid plasma then and just use a conductive projectile, since i'm going to do some experiments. Is there a specific material that would be suited for this?
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Some questions about plasma
