[TheForge] chip shapes and materials

[Demon Buddha]

Jerry Frost wrote:
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> From: "Demon Buddha" <osan at netlabs.net>
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>> Bruce Freeman wrote:
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>>> Frosty,
>>> Your idea on thermally conductive chips is excellent. What we need is 
>>> small (maybe 3/4" dia) balls of a
>>> highly refractory and thermally conductive material.
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>> Bruce, simultaneous hig refractivity and conductivity are mutually 
>> exclusive properties by definition.  It's like wanting a surface with 
>> both high transmissivity and reflectivity at once.
>>
> 
> That would be my misuse of terminology. How about this, High heat 
> resistance and high conductivity? It's what I meant.

	OK, if you're willing to spend the dough, and htis would be whopping 
expensive, hollow, pierced, thick-walled tungsten shot.  High MP and far 
better conductivity than ceramics.  Niobium would be another possible 
candidate, though I am not sure if it poses a fire hazard the way Ti does.