Water capacitors

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Original poster: "Georg Sickinger by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <sickinger-at-web.de>

Hello all :o),

It is impossible to insulate the cap-plates (perhaps with an layer of
paraffin) before
putting them into the water? If you can make this there should be no
problem with
the conductivity of water. Perhaps you can even use nomal water if the
plates are
insulatet very well. How large is the dielectrik factor if you put
several different
materials on each other.
Iīm not a specialist so I canīt guarantee for correctness.

Georg