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roryisok on Jan 1, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Engineers Create Stable Plasma Ring in Open Air

I learned the term 'St Elmos fire' about 15 minutes ago on a different HN story, and here it is again. I know this is a common phenomenon but I've never had it happen so fast

saycheese on Jan 1, 2018 [–]

Related Wikipedia pages “St. Elmo's fire” [1] and “Ball Lighting” [2]:

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Elmo%27s_fire

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

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