RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: 3923's in a 4.7L-HELP!!! Platinum vs. C opper

From: Nicholas Horton (nhorton@reliacom.com)
Date: Mon Oct 23 2000 - 11:16:49 EDT


Gold is used in computer chips because up until recently the couldn't figure
out how to lay copper small enough.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kuriger [mailto:michael@isuzu-mods.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 9:05 PM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: Re: DML: Re: Re: Re: Re: 3923's in a 4.7L-HELP!!!
> Platinum vs.
> Copper
>
>
> Gold is used in computer chips, RCA cables and stuff like
> that because it will
> not tarnish or oxidize or corrode over time.
>
> -=Mike
>
> jay & dana wrote:
>
> > You are right about your periodic letters (symbols) for the
> metals, but in
> > all my years of experience with metals as a jeweller, I
> have never heard of
> > silver as a good conductor. And if it is such a good
> conductor then why is
> > it not used more often because it is more affordable than
> gold, and much
> > more affordable than platinum. Platinum is used not for
> it's conductivity
> > but for the fact that it can withstand higher temperatures within a
> > combustion chamber in an engine or in jewellery it is used
> for 2 purposes,
> > one that it will last forever and two because fewer people
> have and allergic
> > reaction to it. Silver becomes brittle when exposed to high heat.
> >
> > Dana
> > jay&dana@telus.net
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michael Kuriger <michael@isuzu-mods.com>
> > To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
> > Date: Friday, October 20, 2000 2:53 PM
> > Subject: Re: DML: Re: Re: Re: Re: 3923's in a 4.7L-HELP!!!
> Platinum vs.
> > Copper
> >
> > >The platinum is there to protect the copper electrode from
> wear. It is not
> > >supposed to be a better conductor. Also, gold is AU,
> Silver is AG. SILVER
> > is
> > >the best conductor. Gold is below copper.
> > >
> > >-=Mike
> > >
> > >"Steven T. Ekstrand" wrote:
> > >
> > >> Regardless of what the Dodge article and all the
> advertising claims, I'm
> > >> uncomfortable with the idea that Platinum would conduct
> better than
> > Copper.
> > >> Especially, since it is bonded to the copper as Luke points out.
> > >>
> > >> Tom Wickessor sent me an interresting link. Check it out!
> > >>
> > >> This is the proof:
> > >> http://wulff.mit.edu/pt/pert7.html
> > >> AG=gold, CU=copper, PT=platinum
> > >>
> > >> Gold is the best electrical conductor, then copper.
> > >>
> > >> Another question. Duck!
> > >>
> > >> Would a +4 design, regardless of whatever advantage it
> may offer in
> > >> presenting the spark to the mixture, require more spark
> energy to jump
> > the
> > >> gap(s)??? Sometimes, I'd just love to be able to
> download multiple
> > >> engineering degrees and plug it in to spare memory.
> > >>
> > >> -STE
> > >
> > >--
> > >-=Mike Kuriger
> > >1991 Isuzu Impulse RS 1.8
> > >2000 Dodge Durango SLT 4x4 4.7
> > >http://www.isuzu-mods.com
> > >http://www.twistedbits.net/WWWProfile/dakota/NgFQdD9vkNHNg
> > >
> > >
> > >
>
> --
> -=Mike Kuriger
> 1991 Isuzu Impulse RS 1.8
> 2000 Dodge Durango SLT 4x4 4.7
> http://www.isuzu-mods.com
> http://www.twistedbits.net/WWWProfile/dakota/NgFQdD9vkNHNg
>
>



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