Metal-Salt Enhanced Xenon Plasma Ring Sphere Only (Driver Not Included)
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Description
9cm/13cm xenon glass sphere with added metal salts
We’ve currently made three types of glass spheres with added metal salts: Li, Sr, and Carbon.
Li produces red, Sr creates purple, and Carbon generates a yellow particle effect.
A xenon sphere with added salt requires higher power to excite. Only the two driver circuits below provide sufficient power. If you choose the 9 cm sphere, use the driver at this link: https://haloplasma.com/products/noble-gas-glass-ball-helium-neon-argon-krypton-xenon.
If you choose the 13 cm sphere, use the driver at this link: https://haloplasma.com/products/13cm-diameter-he-ne-ar-kr-xe-glass-sphere.
Important Note for Activating the Special Light Feature
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Shake the sphere firmly before use so the metal salts inside are more evenly dispersed
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Place the sphere on the compatible driver and power it on
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Keep rotating or rolling the sphere continuously during operation
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The enhanced light feature may only remain clearly visible for a few seconds at a time, which is normal
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When the sphere is left still, the plasma ring appearance may look similar to a standard xenon gas sphere
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This behavior is expected and is part of how the metal-salt effect works
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I got the lithium and strontium ones,, this is probably the best thing I've ever bought related to chemistry, it works as a normal xenon sphere but there's salt inside, once the plasma torus appears you can roll it or tap it (be careful because it will be hot) and the grains that fall into the plasma interact with it emitting colourful sparks due to its unique emission spectrum.
If you have a spectroscope you can even observe the emission lines pulsing, a red and an orange line for the lithium and a ton of lines for strontium. Also the xenon spectrum looks clean and crisp. Hope they add more diverse salts such as sodium and copper in the future.
Thank you — this is one of the most detailed reviews we've had, and the spectroscope detail made our day. Li and Sr are exactly the two that read best through a diffraction grating. Sodium and copper would both be fantastic — we'll see what the future holds.
These globes are amazing! The carbon-enhanced xenon globe sometimes needs a bit of rolling around or tapping on (the glass is very strong) to free some of the soot to enter the plasma, but once that happens the effect is remarkable -- a stable white plasma torus with orange sparks drifting around and sometimes organizing together like constellations of stars.
Do beware that as the seller warns, the glass for this globe does get very hot very quickly, so be careful and never leave it running unattended. The other globes like neon does not get nearly as hot.
This company's been a joy to order from and I've enjoyed all of their products so far.
This is actually really cool once you know how to use it. First it doesn't just glow red unless the metal salts interact with the plasma. You need to interact with the sphere, turn it, and tap it, so that that salts fall into the plasma ring. You will need keep doing it to see the reaction, but with the right conditions and taps, you can see some really cool things.
From my experience, you need to turn the knob enough to form the plasma ring and then a tiny bit more, or maybe less. The ring should be mostly stable and there should be a slight green glow that you can't quite pinpoint the source of.
If the ring gets thin and starts going crazy with the sphere losing the green glow and clearing up, you've gone too far.
Once you have it at the right level, rotate the sphere gently so that the salts clinging to the glass are now over a part of the plasma ring. give it a gentle tap with your fingernail or something else that won't damage or break the glass. I find it also works better once it's warmed up for a couple minutes.
Sometimes it'll last 3-7 seconds, but sometimes some salts will get trapped in the magnetic/plasma field and you'll see a reaction for 30+ seconds, with it rotating and spiraling around the ring. It's very impressive in person and hard to capture video of what it really looks like.
It takes some experimenting with the level and playing around with the sphere, but it's fun to play around with.
Just excellent. That is all.
Purely awesome. Great customer service as well. If you have any issue, Simon and the team will take care of you the best they can. I highly recommend halo plasma! - a very happy high voltage nerd and return customer, Samuel Nauman.
★★★★★
The effect of strontium being ionized in the plasma is cool, albeit very transitory. Because the Sr is in a solid form (chloride?) it must be ionized by the plasma in order to see the effect. Simply running the sphere and letting the Xe heat the glass and internal environment is nowhere near hot enough to melt, vaporize and ionize the Sr.
I don't know how they were able to get such an amazing picture in the product description, but it's an attention-getter for sure! Still, it's a neat toy to add to my sphere collection!
I'd love to get a few more if they ever get more stock!
Thanks Scott — and you've nailed the mechanism exactly. Strontium sits in solid form inside the sphere, so it only shows its colour where the plasma itself reaches it, not from ambient warmth. The product photo is a long-exposure at the exact moment the Sr is being ionized — real, but it's the peak of the effect rather than the steady state.
Restock is coming — we'll send out a note to subscribers when it lands. Thanks for the honest review!✨
Does not look as described not blue until shaken and then only slighly. Seller does not respond to messages.
Does not look at all as pictured. Likely recieved defective product yet seller does not respond to messages.
Does not look like picture not pink. When shaken slight flash of maybe pink otherwise all look the same. Pretty sure recieved wrong or defective item. Seller does not respond to inquiries.
