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Old August 20th 08, 11:43 PM posted to rec.aviation.homebuilt
Matt Whiting
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Default Peel Ply: Purple Glow?

wrote:
On Aug 19, 1:06 pm, "
wrote:

it had to be static electricity...not because of the color per se, but
the bright glow...pretty cool


Not likely static electricity, but coronal discharge. There's
a difference between a static field and an electric field (a magnetic
field is something else again). A visible spark is static; coronal
discharge (St. Elmo's Fire), or plasma, is electric field activity.
And that's as much as I know. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elmo's_fire

Dan


That is actually more than you know about it. There are electric fields
and magnetic fields, there is not "static" field.

Matt