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gold foil Re: Electroplating - why bother?
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From: Julian Green [SMTP:julian-at-kbss.bt.co.uk]
Sent: Monday, August 24, 1998 7:35 AM
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: gold foil Re: Electroplating - why bother?
> From: Bill Noble [SMTP:william_b_noble-at-email.msn-dot-com]
> Sent: Saturday, August 22, 1998 12:19 PM
> To: Tesla List
> Subject: gold foil Re: Electroplating - why bother?
>
> honest, gold leaf is really cheap. check out your local art supply. It's
> cheap enough that in Thailand, people who make only $100 per year can afford
> to buy sheets of it to cover the budda figures. Remember, even if gold is
> expensive, the leaf is only a few atoms thick so there isn't much gold in a
> gold leaf. And, it will NEVER tarnish.
...only a few atoms thick... Has anyone seen what a telsa coil does to a CD.
You can strip the silver coating of in seconds. Will the gold leaf take the
current, or will it vaporize like the silver coating on a CD?
Julian Green.