Re: kent wax

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

Hi, well you have given me another lead, pine resin or rosin is 1.5-1.8
so not that but i will try something from the 1930's. i also noticed that
not all charts agree, perhaps the temperature being different but not noted!
also noticed maxwell was saying castor oil 5.7 chart says 4.7 and maxwell
said olive oil was higher, but chart says olive oil 3.1
so a lot of values without telling us the additives most likely. cul brian
f.
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Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 8:21 PM
Subject: 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.
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >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 -----
> > > From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2006 9:58 AM
> > > Subject: kent wax
> > >
> > >
> > >  > 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.
> > >  >
> > >  >
> >
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