Anonymous ID: 4c49ce Dec. 27, 2018, 7:45 p.m. No.4494444   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4453 >>4457

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/186199/why-do-electric-sparks-appear-blue-purple

 

Air is normally a bad conductor of electricity, but with enough voltage it can be converted to plasma, which is a good conductor. In a plasma, the electrons constantly bind to and leave atoms. Each time an electron binds to an atom, it emits the energy in light. As a result, the plasma glows the color of a photon with that energy. There are a few different energy levels that get involved, so the spectrum has a few different peaks. The final color depends on the gas you use. For example, neon looks red or red-orange. Air ends up looking blue, so electricity passing through air makes it glow blue.