George But the phosphoric acid in your Diet Pepsi may give you Red Plague :-) Brian "Wenger, George M." wrote: > > I've only had one diet Pepsi but our experience agrees with Doug's; No > it doesn't, no it doesn't, no it's not, yes it will, and no you don't, > respectively. > > Regards, > George > > George M. Wenger (908)-546-4531 [log in to unmask] > Celiant Corporation > 40 Technology Drive > Warren, New Jersey 07059 > > -----Original Message----- > From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 8:43 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [TN] Red plaque on Silver plated wire? > > David Douthit exclaims: > > First; trying to grow dendrites in a 85/85 environment is difficult at > best. Dendrites > require liquid water. the free energy at 85 degrees C is to high. It > will > not allow a liquid > water film to form. you must be below 40 degrees C to ensure the > formation > of liquid water. > > Doug Pauls, well into his second Mt. Dew of the day, responds: > No it doesn't, no it doesn't, no it's not, yes it will, and no you > don't, > respectively. > > It is not hard to grow dendrites, I do it frequently. Anyone who does > SIR > testing will say the same. I've even grown dendrites on gold samples. > Dendritic growth takes moisture, bias and an ionic contaminant. The > greater the magnitude of these factors, the greater the propensity for > dendritic growth. Yes, most dendritic growth requires liquid water, but > you only need a few molecular thicknesses to do this, which is easily > attained at 85/85. Yes, liquid water can form at 85/85. All you need > is a > 1-2 degree difference in temperature between the environment and your > substrate and poof, water. When water forms, temperature wise, depends > on > the relative humidity and the temperature. SIR testers, if they have > done > it long enough, have had an occasion where power goes out on the chamber > and the temperature drop while the humidity remains high. You rapidly > reach the dew point well above 40C. > > I'm sure Brother Ellis in Cyprus can expound on the physics in greater > depth. > > Doug Pauls > Rockwell Collins > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d > To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text > in > the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet > To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET > Technet NOMAIL > Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > > E-mail Archives > Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for > additional > information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 > ext.5315 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d > To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in > the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet > To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL > Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives > Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional > information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 > --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8d To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt delivery of Technet send the following message: SET Technet NOMAIL Search previous postings at: www.ipc.org > On-Line Resources & Databases > E-mail Archives Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------