Simple, ceramic is a generic term, like car. And, ceramic substrates are available in all manner of different thicknesses, densities, and materials.
Like every other engineering material, you decide what characteristics are important to you, and you pick the appropriate material that meets those characteristics. If you work outside of the envelope of that material's capabilities, the results will be disappointing. You were opining that ceramic was too brittle, and breakable and shouldn't be used for metrology work, I disagreed, and attempted to enlighten you with tales of some ceramics that you would be hard pressed to break, even with repeated blows from a hammer. I could tell you of transparent ceramics that are amazingly hard, and strong. I could go further and tell of other ceramics where you can crumble brick sized blocks with light finger pressure. And I could tell you of still other ceramics that you can heat white hot with a torch, and then in a fraction of a second, press the glowing section against your arm without it even feeling warm. Which could lead some to say: ceramics are cool! But as they say, you can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink. -Chuck Harris cheater00 cheater00 wrote: > What can account for this difference between your and my experience > and what Chuck said? > _______________________________________________ volt-nuts mailing list -- volt-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/volt-nuts and follow the instructions there.
