----- Original Message -----
From: John Berry <[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, June 21, 2009 7:43 pm
Subject: Re: [Vo]:Hiddink capacitor links

> On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 10:45 AM, William Beaty <[email protected]> 
> wrote:

> 
> >    Metal is to plastic, as salt-water is to
> > ice.   Saltwater is a conductor because it's full of movable 
> charges,> but when you freeze it, it turns insulating.   The 
> charges just get
> > solidified, they don't disappear.
> 
> 
> All true of course.

Not entirely.
Some plastics are good conductors:

http://www.physorg.com/news62938583.html

Harry 

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