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Glowing Pickles
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A dramatic demonstration of the principle behind sodium arc lights, by passing an electrical current through a pickle of other salty foods.
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Shady Hollow
- Details how to build a glowing/flaming Pickle. Includes photos of the apparatus using heavy-gauge wire and glass jars as insulators, and a plugged-in pickle glowing only at one end.
X Magazine: Please Pass the Science
- Reader feedback with a list of precautions to be taken when electrocuting pickles, of more humorous than practical value.
X Magazine: Please Pass the Science
- The Glowing Pickle: Born of Boredom. Essay on discoveries made by bored scientists, from Post-It Notes to pickle-based sodium arc lights.
Glowing Pickle
- Two enhancements to the standard demonstration apparatus: using a ground fault interrupt (GFI) to reduce the risk of electrocuting the demonstrator, and using potassium chloride (a dietary salt substitute) to produce a pink glow rather than the traditional sodium yellow. Also discusses the mechanism of the single-ended glow.
The Electric Pickle as Will and Idea
- Philosophical discussion of the meaning of the experiment, and multimedia files (.AVI, .MOV, .WAV) of the results.
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