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In Reply to: RE: All your cables will soon be obsolete... posted by Scrith on March 17, 2008 at 09:45:37

Hi.

Copper nanowires are currently the conducting media commony used to hook up chip fine gold electrodes on computer & the alike PCBs, handling nanoamperes (nA - 10-9A - one brillionth ampere) down to picoamperes (pA - 10-12A one trillionth ampere).

So for handling microspic tiny currents across micropic gaps btween electrodes of computer chips, yes. Carbon is being researched to become one cheapie soluation to replace copper in view of the soaring cost of copper worldwide. In ten years maybe to be industrially practical.

But for relatively much much larger currents involved in audios, copper still here for the forseeable future, being the second best electrical & thermal conductor, only next to pure silver, on this planet at room temperature.

c-J

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A rethinking - unclestu52 13:40:24 03/17/08 (1)
- Electron ordering is the term Dale Pitcher used to talk about... - clio09 15:16:30 03/18/08 (0)

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