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The kinetics of the combustion and explosion of nanostructured hydrated porous silicon has been analyzed in a duration range from 100 μs to 1 s. It has been shown that the presence of hydrogen in silicon nanostructures increases the energy yield of oxidation processes leading to the formation of spherical plasmoids with a size of 0.1–0.8 m. Buoyancy in them can be compensated by the weight of the material particles formed inside and this compensation leads to a change in the velocity of plasmoids from 0.5 m/s to zero in the process of their cooling. It is hypothesized that a ball lightning appears due to the combustion and explosion of nanostructured hydrated silicon in spherical plasmoids.
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Original Russian Text © S.K. Lazarouk, A.V. Dolbik, V.A. Labunov, V.E. Borisenko, 2006, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Éksperimental’noĭ i Teoreticheskoĭ Fiziki, 2006, Vol. 84, No. 11, pp. 695–699.
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Lazarouk, S.K., Dolbik, A.V., Labunov, V.A. et al. Spherical plasmoids formed upon the combustion and explosion of nanostructured hydrated silicon. Jetp Lett. 84, 581–584 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0021364006230020
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