Re: conductivity of LN2

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Original poster: "Bert Hickman by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <bert.hickman-at-aquila-dot-net>

Michael,

It should work fine - like it's gaseous form, liquid nitrogen is an 
excellent insulator and HV dielectric.

-- Bert --
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Bert Hickman
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Tesla list wrote:
>Original poster: "Craft, Michael D by way of Terry Fritz 
><twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <Craft-at-udri.udayton.edu>
>Regarding this thread:
>http://www.pupman-dot-com/listarchives/2002/May/msg00914.html
>I would like to perform some electrical resistivity measurements on a
>specimen at a temperature of 77 K.  The resistance of the specimen is around
>500 K ohms.  My plan is to affix electrodes to the specimen and dip it in
>liquid nitrogen, then measure the resistance.
>I think this will work O.K., but what about the liquid nitrogen?  Is it
>conductive?  Would anyone know what the conductivity of LN2 is?
>
>Thank you,
>Michael Craft, EE
>University of Dayton Research Institute (UDRI)
>300 College Park, KL-554
>Dayton, OH 45469-0152
>937-229-2707
>937-229-3433 (fax)
>mcraft-at-udri.udayton.edu
>