Sentences with phrase «plasma channel forms»
A current - conducting plasma channel forms as the air gets ionized along the laser beam.
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They fired straight laser pulses into the thunderclouds 10 times every second, hoping that the high energy plasma channels that form in the laser pulse's wake would trigger lightning strikes, which would then travel along the plasma channels down to the ground, like a train running along railway tracks (Optics Express, DOI: 10.1364 / OE.16.005757).
Voltage-gated calcium channels can not form properly when cacophony is mutated, preventing fusion of the synaptic vesicle with the plasma membrane and neurotransmitter release.
As a plane flies through a thunderstorm or other electrically charged environment, the outside of the plane begins to be polarized, forming «leaders,» or channels of highly conductive plasma, flowing from opposite ends of the plane and eventually out toward oppositely charged regions of the atmosphere.
«Imagine two channels of plasma propagating very quickly, and when they reach the cloud and the ground, they form a circuit, and current flows through,» Guerra - Garcia says.
These zircons and their contents probably formed in the plasma channels «drilled» by the electrical discharges at the beginning of the flood.