Self Charging Leyden

[sm0ky2]

"Admittedly, I have, for the sake of the argument, made this statement slightly too strong. There is one exception: If you have a conductor, negatively charged, and the conductor is connected to ground by a metallic wire, then the excess of electrons will bleed away through the wire."  - quoted from Mr. Static page

This is a perfect explaination of the salt-water discharging process they used on the bottles - which coincidently was the only way they found to achieve the resired results as the actual charge was isolated under the dried ink and not subject to dissipation into the air.

[argona369]

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[sm0ky2]

it is possible, i believe, that oxidation (or a form thereof) could have created an insulating layer on the outside of the metalic ink, which would not be present between the ink and the bottle itself.

[sm0ky2]

meaning that a charge would have a path of travel between bottle and ink

[argona369]

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