Charge-Dipole Acceleration of Polar Gas Molecules towards Charged Nanoparticles: Involvement in Powerful Charge-Induced Catalysis of Heterophase Chemical Reactions and Ball Lightning Phenomenon
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In humid air, negatively charged sodium metal based nanoparticles or their aggregates with soot carbon nanoparticles are continuously re-electrohydrated by surrounding molecules of water vapour, and so they can be spontaneously transformed into the sodium/air or aggregated composite sodium-carbon/air core-shell nanobatteries, which are periodically short-circuited by the intraparticle core-shell electron emission breakdowns. Probably, the small ball-shaped clouds of such sodium/air core-shell nanoparticles-nanobatteries could be generated by high-voltage pulse-arc electrolysis from the NaHCO3 containing water solutions in the experiments [4, 7]. At an initial stage, the sodium metal and hydrogen gas could be synchronously produced on the hot carbon cathode. In these experiments, milligrammes of the fresh-reduced electrolysis-generated sodium metal could be immediately evaporated by the pulse arc discharge. Then, the evaporated sodium metal can be condensed in the form of the small cloud of the negatively charged sodium metal nanoparticles in the local hydrogen gas based reducing atmosphere. In humid air, predominantly electrochemical oxidation of the highly charged and continuously electrohydrated sodium nanoparticles-nanobatteries could probably take place in these specific experiments, while similar ball lightning clouds consisting of the negatively charged sodium-, calcium-, iron-, aluminium-, or carbon-based nanoparticles spontaneously converted into metal/air or carbon/air nanobatteries, could be generated by both the pulse electrolysis and arc evaporation of carbon/metal cathodes in the earlier similar experiments [1, 2].
