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| Jan 28, 2021 at 16:03 | comment | added | Qami | My first inclination is to agree with Willk's concern (sure, vacuum is a great insulator, but plasma isn't vaccuum). However, Thucydides, you went through with this explanation (accompanied by fancy illustration!) as if it was a well-known theoretical technique...do you have any references or links you can point us towards? Maybe those could help us understand why the heat isn't a problem for the foil. | |
| Sep 2, 2018 at 3:03 | history | edited | Thucydides | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jan 23, 2018 at 20:43 | comment | added | Thucydides | Since vacuum is a great insulator, the bag will not be receiving as much of a heat load as you think. As well, the magnetic field of the mass spectrometer should be pulling the hot ions towards the second opening, drawing much of the heat energy away from the bag as well. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 19:01 | comment | added | Willk | I am wondering about that metal foil bag in which you are melting things. It seems to me like smelting iron in a trash can. That foil bag contains metal heated to a plasma. The hot plasma will touch the bag and offload its heat. Will the foil bag not also be heated to a plasma? | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 18:25 | history | answered | Thucydides | CC BY-SA 3.0 |