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SUBMITTER: Gharib M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5715769 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gharib Morteza M Gharib Morteza M Mendoza Sean S Rosenfeld Moshe M Beizai Masoud M Alves Pereira Francisco J FJ
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20171116 48
Saint Elmo's fire and lightning are two known forms of naturally occurring atmospheric pressure plasmas. As a technology, nonthermal plasmas are induced from artificially created electromagnetic or electrostatic fields. Here we report the observation of arguably a unique case of a naturally formed such plasma, created in air at room temperature without external electromagnetic action, by impinging a high-speed microjet of deionized water on a dielectric solid surface. We demonstrate that tribo-e ...[more]