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Re: kent wax

Original poster: Jim Lux <jimlux@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

At 03:34 PM 11/14/2006, Tesla list wrote:

Original poster: "BRIAN FOLEY" <ka1bbg@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Hi, carnauba wax listed as 2.9 dielectric coe. and this kent wax is 6.5 to
7.5 dielectric coe. superman looses this time. cul brian f.
That's a very high epsilon. I'd suspect it is a wax loaded with particles of something else that has a high dielecric constant (alumina, water?). I found one vague reference to it being a component in a lubricant, so I doubt it's alumina. Tree Sap? Pine Tar? 

There's a lot of waxy substances around.
I notice that it's in many, many dielectric constant tables, but they're probably all copied from some common reference, and that original reference is probably from the 1930s or earlier. I'd check old machining handbooks and the like. I looked in the John Strong Procedures in Experimental Physics book but didn't find it there. 


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Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:44 PM
Subject: Re: kent wax


> Original poster: "Teslacoil Workshop" <workshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> I'd guess (GUESS) that it is carnauba wax... Do the Dielectric Listings in
> question show carnauba wax along with Kent wax? If not, it may be a Clark
> Kent / Superman clue that Kent may be carnauba...
>
> Just guessing...
>
> Jeff
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:58 AM
> Subject: kent wax
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>
>  > Original poster: "BRIAN FOLEY" <ka1bbg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>  >
>  > Hi, trying to find information on kent wax, listed in many dielectric
>  > constant listings. i looked on the web and no luck, looked in
>  > handbook of chemistry and physics 1954 by chemical rubber publishing
>  > co. nothing there either? anybody know what kent wax is???
>  > thanks, brian f.
>  >
>  >