Modification of water in a nanosecond diffuse discharge with fast electron preionization at a short voltage rise time

Autor: Victor M. Orlovskii, Mikhail A. Shulepov, Victor A. Panarin
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: SPIE Proceedings.
ISSN: 0277-786X
DOI: 10.1117/12.2225193
Popis: The paper studies the dynamics of a nanosecond diffuse discharge with no additional preionization at a voltage rise time of less than 1 ns and its effect on drinking and distilled water. It is shown that the diffuse discharge is formed due to avalanche charge multiplication initiated by fast electrons and is sustained by secondary breakdown waves through ionized gas channels. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy reveals that repeated exposure to the discharge changes the absorption spectra of drinking and distilled water such that the stretching vibration band of OH groups broadens and lacks clearly defined peaks. The water conductivity after irradiation increases. Probably, this is due to cluster rearrangement of water molecules.
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