Fred Cisin wrote:
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009, Philip Pemberton wrote:
and commercial uses) though the only use I could
come up with for gold
was the plating on edge connectors...
or anything else that needs to be inert
Gold doped semiconductors like Schotkey diodes.
could think of
for that. Didn't manage to think of a single commercial
or industrial use for silver at all...
remember photographic film?
Relay contacts, low resistance films, plating for high power RF tanks
and wave guides where surface corrosion is a problem.
Allison