In Reply to: RE: Slagle is the actual scientist here... posted by Joe Roberts on September 2, 2012 at 19:52:04:
During the Manhattan project, the electromagnetic separation process needed a lot of copper for the coils in these machines called Calutrons. Copper was rare during the war so General Groves borrowed silver from the government and used that for the wire in the electromagnets.Read about it below.
Now the pressing question: Is U235 separated with a silver based electromagnet superior to one from a copper based electromagnet?
Seriously, I did not read this thread through but a transformer wound with silver wire is a bit different than a few inches of silver hookup wire in an audio amplifier. IMPO, a silver transformer may indeed sound quite different than a copper version. I don't know as I never tested this. But a few inches of silver wire versus copper inside a speaker driving audio amplifier? I can't buy into that at all.
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