Re: Unusual capacitor dielectrics

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• Subject: Re: Unusual capacitor dielectrics
• From: Scott Stephens <Scott2-at-mediaone-dot-net> (by way of Terry Fritz <terryf-at-verinet-dot-com>)
• Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:29:53 -0700
• Approved: terryf-at-verinet-dot-com

>Original Poster: Steven Ivy <adder_black_the-at-yahoo-dot-com> 
>
>I once had the idea of using ice as the
>dielectric in a capacitor
...
>Does anyone know the dielectric strength and or constant
>for ice?

Someone just posted a chart & listed it as 4. Which I considered suprizing,
since water is 100. But water expands during phase change from liquid to
solid, unlike most everything else.

I want to build an ice-man sculpture, with ice-spheres resonant to a tesla
coil's break-rate. Or how about a piezo-electric ice sculpture, that
periodicaly gets smacked by a hammer & produces a lighting bolt, like an
oversized peizo-lighter? You can put a sign on 'frosty the snow-man' that
says 'kick me' :)

Can you polarize freezing ice, as you would a peizo or ferro electric crystal?

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