[sdiy] ASM Capacitors/Bench Power Supplies

[Steven Downhill]

	>p.p.s. Can I be the resident synth-diy geologist?

With an in depth explanation like below I don't see why not.
However, you may have a bit of a fight on your hands for the title as other
people have also written back with an answer.

Regards
Steven
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Ken Mosley [SMTP:kenanalog at yahoo.com]
> Sent:	01 August 2003 22:49
> To:	Steven Downhill; 'Ian Fritz'; music.maker at gte.net;
> synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> Subject:	RE: [sdiy] ASM Capacitors/Bench Power Supplies
> 
> 
>  
> > Anybody know a geologist that we can ask?.
> 
> 
> finally, something that I actually know something
> about...Indian Ruby like Mike said is a great mica for
> electrical applications.  But how pure can nature
> produce these minerals?  Once you start looking at the
> angstrom scale, you start seeing that small
> inconsistencies can cause all sorts of
> physical/chemical defects.  Inconsistencies including
> solid-solutions, varying inter-layer cations, crystal
> discontinuity, polymorphs, etc.  
> 
> In fact, I battle this every day at work.  We've been
> trying to figure out how to automate our "easy"
> diffraction analyses but it's almost impossible since
> chemistry varies widely in almost all
> naturally-occurring mineral species.  That's the
> reason why the International Centre for Diffraction
> Data has tens of thousands of diffraction patterns on
> file to help people identify these minerals by X-ray
> Diffraction.  So how many mica caps out there suffer
> from all of these things?  Probably many, but I also
> know that I like the way they sound in some of my
> stompboxes...
> 
> ken
> 
> p.s. did you know that muscovite de-waters when
> heated...
> p.p.s. Can I be the resident synth-diy geologist?
> 
> 
> 
> 
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