So with more surface area you will be making it faster? I use 1 troy oz coins with a little over half in the water and was told by someone that 6" of 12 gauge wire has more contact area. Is that correct?
Thanks Native American style flutes & Matted photos by ~ Gajon ~ www.etsy.com/shop/gajon ________________________________ From: Richard Goodwin <dickgoodwin2...@yahoo.com> To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Mon, March 8, 2010 7:34:10 AM Subject: Re: CS> Why flatten Silver wire ? Um ... don't think so. When you flatten it out (wire, coin, anything), a lot of what used to be inside (and therefore not surface), will now be on the outside (and therefore be added to the surface area). Mathematically, consider a circular cross section of wire, with, e.g., a radius of one millimeter. The area is pi sq mm, or, roughly, 3 square millimeters. The circumference, which would be the surface area, is 2*pi, or roughly 6 millimeters. Now squish it down so that instead of a circle, you have a very thin rectangle that is 30 mm long by 1/3 mm thick. The area is still 1 square millimeter, but the circumference is now 60-2/3 mm, 10 times as much surface area as before. Dick ________________________________ From: Tel Tofflemire <telt...@yahoo.com> To: silver-list@eskimo.com Sent: Sun, March 7, 2010 2:38:24 PM Subject: Re: CS> Why flatten Silver wire ? Why flatten and weaken the silver wire? It will still have the same available surface Round or Flat. Tel Tofflemire Dewey, AZ.
