Corona discharge with a discharge current of a few hundred microamperes can blow out a small candle flame within about 1 cm of a discharge point. A pinwheel, with radial metal spokes and pointed tips bent to point along the circumference of a circle, can be made to rotate if energized by a corona discharge; the rotation is due to differential electric attraction between the metal spokes and the space charge shield region that surrounds the tips. Corona discharge A corona discharge is an electrical discharge brought on by the ionization of a fluid such as air surrounding a conductor that is
Hiberno-Latin be to cast ridicule on these Vatican-oriented writers by blending their stylistic tricks with incompetent scansion and applying them to unworthy subjects. On a much more intelligible level, the sixth-century Abecedarian hymn "Altus prosator" shows many of the features of Hiberno-Latin: the word "prosator", the "first sower" meaning "creator", refers to God using an unusual neologism. The text of the poem also contains the word "iduma", meaning "hands;" this is probably from Hebrew "yadaim". The poem is also an extended alphabetical acrostic, another example of the wordplay typical of Hiberno-Latin. Irish (but not Continental) manuscripts traditionally attributed the poem to