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From: ems@amdahl.UUCP (ems)
Newsgroups: net.sci
Subject: Re: Question about Electricity
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Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 13:33:49 EST
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> In article <2358@ukma.UUCP> slg@ukma.UUCP (Sean Gilley) writes:
> >
> >     Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity.  The reason you need to
> >be careful with electricity around water is that the minerals in solution
> >within the water are conductors.
> >
> This is not quite correct.  Pure water (H2O) DOES conduct elecricity.
> However, the conductivity is sufficiently low that it can often be
> ignored.  What causes aqueous solutions to be conductive is the ions
> which present in the solution.
...
Hmmm.  Sounds like a semiconductor.  I can see it now, the
next 'wave' in chips.  Fluidics!  No. NO.  Thats been taken. Er, ah,
Fluitronics!!  No. no.  Too hard to read...  How about:  aquaware !!
no. sounds like a swimsuit.  Hurumph.  Maybe this idea is just all wet...
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