You're right Bill, but the "units" thing was no more than a red herring. It
just detoured the conversation away from the original question - a common
occurance here.
Phil
At 06:54 AM 9/22/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
>>
>Not only that, one of the very vocal participants in the game cant even
>understand that, just because the standard way of measuring resitivity uses
>a cubic centimeter, the units are NOTohms per cubic centimeter- Just for
>kicks, I checked several references- (like the Handbook of Chemistry and
>Physics, Marks Engineers handbook, The Van Nostrand Scientific
>Encyclopedia- and the NASA spec on Units and Conversion factors- )
>
>ALL of these think the units of Resistivity are ohm-cm, or a fraction
>thereof.
>
>The Brit checked his data after his first statement concerning the relative
>resistivity (or conductivity) of Copper and Silver, and made an open (to
>the list) correction- I wonder if the other guy, who used his mistake in
>units as a venue for insulting comments, can be as open and say he was
>wrong- ( at least, this time)
>
>Fat chance.
>
>Bill- W4BSG
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