liquid wiring

[Omega]

they had this really nice conductive "ink" or something like that in the days of old athlon overclocking. you literally had you paint your processor to short the L2 briges and get the sucker unlocked. before the ink, no joke, we only needed pencils. lol

Ahh, graphite. Wonder material of days, both old and new. We write with it. It can be used as rocket nozzles. It can be used to unlock old athlons.

Will it's uses ever end?

[Slug Toy]

all you need for good electron conductivity is a weak acid .05 molar HCl would be a good bet. then find something that can take the corrosion for a good period of time.

there are two metals that will not corrode. gold and platinum, and both are skyrocketing in price for some reason. another problem is the fact that hydrochloric acid eats away at things even under normal conditions.

you really want a salt where the cation has a tendency to form a basic compound in water that is equal and opposite to the anion's tendency to form an acid. even when you find a suitable salt... running electricity through it changes everything. like i said with normal table salt... if you run electricity through that you get chlorine gas and sodium hydroxide forming. almost all salts will do something like that.

you compound this problem when you take into consideration that you're going to start stripping metal off the anode and depositing it on the cathode. i think platinum is the only metal that can resist that, and now we're talking about big money for platinum electrodes.

and finally, one other thing to consider. will the current be able to flow through a solution as readily as in copper wires? some power supplies are capable of about 40 amps, and i dont know if salts can handle that. i havent exactly tested it either, but it doesnt seem likely.

[AJ@PR]

Ahh, graphite. Wonder material of days, both old and new. We write with it. It can be used as rocket nozzles. It can be used to unlock old athlons.

Will it's uses ever end?

You can set it on fire and cook your food.

You can use a specific 'version' of it for lubrication.

You can compress it with The Hammer of God and end up with diamonds.

You can write the side-walk with it.

((( this reminded me of the following:::

<fireserve> !is the cumulitve mutiplication thing
<Benoit> ! is lots of things
<fireserve> like 6! = 6x5x4x3x2x1
<Wolfman_Dain> ! is the programming term for "not"
<Benoit> ! at the end of a sentence can also mean
exclamation... or so I've been told
<fireserve> and if you flip it upside down and put one
at the front, its spanish
<Benoit> !, is there anything it cant do?

))))))

[Murader]

if you do something like this Engrave the wires into two peices of Glass (then press together and Seal) becuase thats the only way it will be really cool is if you can see it. Glass with Hold up to a light acid.

[chedabob]

Why not just use non-conductive liquid, and put really thin wires throught it?

It creates a sort of illusion.

[SgtM]

Innovative, though I believe it would be highly impractical. +1 rep for thinking outside the box.

[Chel]

Ahh, graphite. Wonder material of days, both old and new. We write with it. It can be used as rocket nozzles. It can be used to unlock old athlons.

Will it's uses ever end?

ha I used it the other day to mod my Ultra D to SLI lol..but then I later fried the mobo by plugging the USB cable in the com port

Anywho Im no scientist or anything but the idea is neat sounding.

[GT40_GearHead]

and yet again we come back to mercury

wouldn't work, it would be bloody heavy but it would work..... i think,
slug, what do you have to say ?

[AJ@PR]

and yet again we come back to mercury

wouldn't work, it would be bloody heavy but it would work..... i think,
slug, what do you have to say ?

Mercury.... hmmm...

Dangerous... check!
Toxic... check!
Exotic metal... check!

I believe we have a winner!

I like Murader's idea... maybe not for the ENTIRE connection, but it would be very cool to have 'channels' in the glass "sandwich" conducting electricity.

[Slug Toy]

you know, i think mercury is the only practical conductive liquid... even though its risky business. maybe its just the fact that i like mercury...

no matter what you use... glass "tubing"... plastic... paper... the fact remains that you still need metal electrodes to pass current, and those electrodes are going to break down over time because of the simple fact that there is a mass transfer from anode to cathode when you use a salt or acid or base solution. thats also why i like mercury, because it solves that problem.

not even graphite can save you this time either. graphite electrodes hold up slightly better than metal, but at the end of the day, you'll have a nice black precipitate and no more electrode.

mercury is a winner, providing you dont go an eat it...