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gold foil Re: Electroplating - why bother?




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From:  Julian Green [SMTP:julian-at-kbss.bt.co.uk]
Sent:  Monday, August 24, 1998 7:35 AM
To:  tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject:  Re: gold foil Re: Electroplating - why bother?

> From:  Bill Noble [SMTP:william_b_noble-at-email.msn-dot-com]
> Sent:  Saturday, August 22, 1998 12:19 PM
> To:  Tesla List
> Subject:  gold foil Re: Electroplating - why bother?
> 
> honest, gold leaf is really cheap.  check out your local art supply.  It's
> cheap enough that in Thailand, people who make only $100 per year can afford
> to buy sheets of it to cover the budda figures.  Remember, even if gold is
> expensive, the leaf is only a few atoms thick so there isn't much gold in a
> gold leaf.  And, it will NEVER tarnish.

...only a few atoms thick...  Has anyone seen what a telsa coil does to a CD.
You can strip the silver coating of in seconds.   Will the gold leaf take the
current, or will it vaporize like the silver coating on a CD?

Julian Green.