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From: cees@maestro.htsa.aha.nl (Cees Keyer)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Which is a better conductor: gold or silver?
Message-ID: <996@maestro.htsa.aha.nl>
Date: 17 Jul 89 08:56:15 GMT
References: <14172@swan.ulowell.edu> <19729@louie.udel.EDU> <20483@cup.portal.com>
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In article <20483@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>As John Berryhill said, gold is used for corrosion resistance on contact
>surfaces.  It's not a very good conductor, as metals go.  It's electrical
>resistance is not important because it's a thin layer.
I think that the resistance is important. 
The reason that it's a thin layer is nonsense because 
gold is also used in the high frequency technology
but in that high freq. region the major part of the resistance
is contributed by the "skin effect" so the reason 
"it's just a thin layer" is nonsense. 
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DISCLAIMER: All the opinions expressed are my own.
Cees Keyer, Algemene Hogeschool Amsterdam.      
department of electrical engineering.          
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