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From: lindsay@MATHOM.GANDALF.CS.CMU.EDU (Donald Lindsay)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: ETA10 (was Re: Surges)
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Date: 20 Nov 89 17:23:22 GMT
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In article <5290@internal.Apple.COM> desnoyer@apple.com 
	(Peter Desnoyers) writes:
>Actually, isn't LN2 supposed to be a pretty lousy thermal conductor? Just 
>because it's cold doesn't mean it's a good coolant :-)


You're probably thinking of liquid helium. The superconductivity
researchers were thrilled to switch from helium to nitrogen.

Also, note that liquids are three orders of magnitude denser than
air. Air is even worse than helium (but cheap).
-- 
Don		D.C.Lindsay 	Carnegie Mellon Computer Science