I am no expert on plastic strings, nor am I a degreed chemical
engineer. I have had a six-month romp through carbon chemistry at work,
and can suggest a few things.
First, Nylon and 'Carbon' strings are both carbon, since carbon is the
major constituent. Nylon used for strings, iden
I made a test: I put a piece of an old "rectified" Pyramid 0.70 nylon
string to water, and it sank, slowly but sank anyhow. So it is heavier
than water, and thus it must weight more than my 1000 Kg/m3.
But I have always calculated with 1000, and shall do so in the future,
too... ;-)
Arto
Nylon tends to be a bit more opaque than carbon but this really only shows with
thicker strings.
Best advice is: put it on your lute see what note you get with a certain
tension.
Compare to other strings of same note and tension and the thinner string will
be the carbon.
BTW there seem to be ma
Is is possible to distinguish reliably between carbon and
nylon if the string's packaging is not available?
I've seen a knowledgeable person rub the string, but I don't
know whether he was listening to the sound, feeling the
texture, or judging some other aspect.
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Nylon 1000 Kg / m3
Carbon 1791 Kg / m3
Arto
On 03/11/12 09:01, Herbert Ward wrote:
Does anyone have numbers for the density of nylon
and the density of carbon?
Or, equivalently, a chart showing "diameter x in
nylon = diameter y in carbon"?
I used Google for several minutes, but did not find
Does anyone have numbers for the density of nylon
and the density of carbon?
Or, equivalently, a chart showing "diameter x in
nylon = diameter y in carbon"?
I used Google for several minutes, but did not find
anything.
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