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From: bmaraldo@watdcsu.UUCP
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Subject: Mercury Filled Speaker Wire
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Date: Wed, 9-Sep-87 21:33:15 EDT
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  Is there such a product on the market?

  I just made a set of 2m long 5mm in diameter mercury filled cables with
  copper touch conductors and large lugs.  I really do not have a clue as
  to the dynamic characteristics of mercury.  If you know anything about
  what an audio signal might look like after propagating through such a
  cable, I'd like to know, especially if you have data to back your
  comments up with.  I already know about the resistivity of Mercury;  it
  is about 95 microhms-cm at 20C (Copper is 1.7 microhms-cm).  My
  calculations show that each 2m Mercury conductor has a resistance of 15
  milliohms and that a 10gauge copper wire 3mm in diameter has a resistance
  of 0.1 milliohms (these are approximate theoretical values and do not
  represent measured data).

				Brett L Maraldo


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