Anyone here knows about chemistry or physics?

So i was messing around with one of those plasma balls where you put your hands on it and it so happens that i found out salt is attracted to it. Both the common table salt and the pink himalayan salt. However, it will only be attracted if the salt is connected to something that "gathers" the plasma rays, like a hand, a magnet or a metallic spoon, if you understand what i mean. Also, if the salt is on the glass of the plasma ball and you approach it with one of the above, it will be attracted to the hand or magnet, etc. It is as if it was travelling through a connection between the plasma ball and the instrument. It even form little chains of salt. Anyway, i decided to microwave a couple strips of alumminum foil, salt and a little magnet together to see if the stronger plasma would do something with the salt. What happened was that the magnet burst into a bunch of pieces and i am almost certain some of the salt crystallized. Now i am no expert, but i've done some wikipedia reading on paramagnetism and diamagneitsm and i don't think this is what's happening here, plus, i never heard of magnetic table salt. So i was wondering if there's anyone out there that could explain to me what just happened, in a simple way. Also, i would love to see some replication of these experiments by someone with more resources. Maybe a stronger plasma source.

Edit: If anyone's interested i'll upload a video on youtube later. I have to wait until my brother arrives with a better camera.

Edit 2: I'm also fairly certain the magnet did not burst because of the heat, as i had microwaved him for a much longer time some hours before but just couldnt make the plasma. Then when the plasma ball finally appeared, it burst open.

Last Edited by AllisOneisAll on 11/20/2019 02:52 PM