TANTALUM MEA CULPA Público Deposited
- Following up on the recent exchange about the metal
tantalum, Alan Luedeking writes: "My apologies -- Mr.
Schmidt is right of course; moreover, I was wrong about
the conductivity of tantalum altogether: While it is quite
conductive, it is less conductive than both silver and gold,
having a thermal conductivity of 57.5 J/m-sec-deg and
an electrical conductivity of 80.321 1/mohm-cm.Silver and gold both have significantly higher values. For
more information on all aspects of elements I recommend
the following interesting website:
http://www.scescape.net/~woods/elements/.
I apologize to all for my misinformation!"
[While web surfing your Editor came across the following
related page - a listing by Tony Clayton of metals used
in coins and medals: - 2002-08-18
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