Re: Depleted Uranium SG

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Original poster: Mddeming@xxxxxxx 

Hi Mike,

In a message dated 10/1/05 9:43:56 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
tesla@xxxxxxxxxx writes:
Original poster: "Mike" 
<mailto:mike.marcum@xxxxxxxxxxxx>mike.marcum@xxxxxxxxxxxx


This is probably the stupidest idea yet,

Close, but no trophy  :-))))
but has anyone thought of
using depleted uranium for sparkgap electrodes?

Depleted uranium is still radioactive and oxides are not good to inhale.
Figured if it was one
of the heaviest stable elements in the periodic table it won't
melt/corrode as easily as tungsten at high power.

High Weight<> high melting point. Lead and gold - very stable and 
very high M.Wt. but low melting point.
Does it have crappy
RF properties like steel?

Yes
Probably a moot point in a few years when
DRSSTC's take over,

Baseless assumption: It is like saying that some day all sculptors 
will want to work only in plastics, or that no one will want to build 
a boat hull from anything but fiberglass. Just as there are still 
artists who carve stone, or prefer oils to CAD programs, and those 
who still build wooden boats in their back yards, there will always 
be a significant number of coilers for whom the anachronistic 
technology IS the main draw. My two youngest grandkids have built 
small coils (2""x 10") where the only parts that weren't home made 
were the storage batteries that powered them. For them, "coolness" 
trumps efficiency.
but still kinda courious.

Mike



Matt D.