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Re: Plastics (bottles)




From: 	Alfred A. Skrocki[SMTP:alfred.skrocki-at-cybernetworking-dot-com]
Sent: 	Sunday, June 22, 1997 11:52 PM
To: 	Tesla List
Subject: 	Re: Plastics (bottles)

On Sunday, June 22, 1997 3:29 PM Malcolm Watts
[SMTP:MALCOLM-at-directorate.wnp.ac.nz] wrote;

> > Does anyone know what kind of plastic the clear 2 and 3 liter soda
> > bottles are made of? I thought possibly polycarbonate, but they seem
> > pretty flexible and I remember polycarbonate as being rather brittle!
 
> I think it's polyethylene-terepthalate.

Mylar! Urgh! That kill's any idea of using them to make capacitors! 
Thanks Malcolm!



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