Homemade ion trap using spoons and wire

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This homemade "ion" trap is made up of two spoons and a loop of wire, connected to a high voltage transformer at roughly 3kV. In the video, particles of cornstarch which happen to pick up an electric charge are demonstrated being trapped. There is nothing special about cornstarch, I've also trapped baking soda, powdered sugar, dirt swept off a workbench, and a colleague volunteered his dandruff but I decided to pass on his offer. I'll leave it to someone else to post a video showing dandruff can be trapped.

Despite how simple this experiment is, I haven't found any other instances online of hobbyists making ion traps, so I've decided to post this, my first ever YouTube video.

More at: http://randombytes.net/ion_traps.html