It's true that some ceramics (like beryllium oxide) are highly conductive.
But not as conductive as silver.
However, I think I may have found the answer by looking at the MSDS for
both products on arcticsilver.com. Both the silver and non-silver varieties
contain boron nitride, which has a thermal conductivity much higher than
silver.
I guess I won't be sending the non-silver stuff back after all.
73, Mike
www.w0btu.com
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> Not necessarily: some ceramics are extremely thermally conductive.
>
> Kim N5OP
>
> "People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as
> the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
>
> On Feb 5, 2015, at 7:58, Mike Waters <mikewate@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just ordered Arctic Silver thermal grease from Newark. What I actually
> received was labeled "Arctic Alumina", "Premium Ceramic Polysynthetic
> Thermal Compound, By Arctic Silver". It's white, and not silver-colored
> like some kind of thermal grease that I had in the past. It was
> drop-shipped from MCM Electronics, and no mention was made of the above
> details when I ordered it on Newark's main web site.
>
> According to what I found on a couple of computer overclocking web sites,
> the thermal conductivity of Arctic Silver 5 (containing actual powdered
> silver) and what I received above (with no silver), is the same. I don't
> know how that can be the true, since silver is so much more thermally
> conductive than anything else except copper. Anyone have any experience or
> thoughts on this?
>
>
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