In Reply to: Although posted by bartc on April 20, 2011 at 17:33:53:
the attraction of sugar to ants, we did coat some sugar balls with nail polish, both clear and a colored one. The sound got progressively worse, losing dynamics and transient attacks and generally increasing in muddiness as the colors darkened. The naked sugar cubes seemed to work best.
Sugar cubes are simply granulated sugar set up into a set shape, so I suspect your negative results may be due to the fact that the sugar crystals may be simply too heavy for the piezo effect to display itself when allowed to simply sit without out an elastomeric base.
Again YMMV
Stu
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- Bearing in mind - unclestu 18:28:32 04/20/11 (0)