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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Now what am I going to store on this?
Date: 19 Apr 2008 18:19:28
Message: <480a6ff0@news.povray.org>
Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Chambers <ben### [at] pacificwebguycom> wrote:
> >> Which part - my description of semiconductors, or my classification of 
> >> Silicon as one?
> > 
> >   Your comparison of doped silicon to a superconductor.

> Isn't that the point of doping?

  If you got a *superconductor* by doping a semiconductor, at room
temperature, you would get a Nobel price in physics like right now.

  A superconductor has 0 resistance. A doped semiconductor has a resistance
larger than 0. It's not a superconductor.

  Maybe you meant that the semiconductor becomes a metallic conductor when
doped?

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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Now what am I going to store on this?
Date: 19 Apr 2008 18:31:13
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Warp wrote:
>   Maybe you meant that the semiconductor becomes a metallic conductor when
> doped?

FWIW, I don't think that happens either. It might become a better 
conductor, but nothing close to metalic.

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From: Eero Ahonen
Subject: Re: Now what am I going to store on this?
Date: 19 Apr 2008 18:52:47
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Warp wrote:
> 
>   If you got a *superconductor* by doping a semiconductor, at room
> temperature, you would get a Nobel price in physics like right now.
> 
>   A superconductor has 0 resistance. A doped semiconductor has a resistance
> larger than 0. It's not a superconductor.
> 
>   Maybe you meant that the semiconductor becomes a metallic conductor when
> doped?
> 

IIUC he ment that doped silicon becomes a semi-conducter, like a doped 
conducter can become superconducter.

Just my 2 cents.

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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Now what am I going to store on this?
Date: 19 Apr 2008 19:20:38
Message: <480a7e46$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
>   Maybe you meant that the semiconductor becomes a metallic conductor when
> doped?

Probably.  Chemisty was never really my strong suit in school - I 
preferred math & physics (of light).

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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Now what am I going to store on this?
Date: 20 Apr 2008 04:54:19
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Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
> like a doped conducter can become superconducter.

  Exactly which doped conductor can become a superconductor? (And at what
temperature?)

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From: Eero Ahonen
Subject: Re: Now what am I going to store on this?
Date: 20 Apr 2008 10:16:41
Message: <480b5049$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
>> like a doped conducter can become superconducter.
> 
>   Exactly which doped conductor can become a superconductor? (And at what
> temperature?)
> 

Dunno, *I* haven't read superconductor-physics. That's just *how i red 
what Chambers wrote*, so that's *what I think he ment*.

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From: Chambers
Subject: Re: Now what am I going to store on this?
Date: 20 Apr 2008 14:59:20
Message: <480b9288$1@news.povray.org>
Eero Ahonen wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Eero Ahonen <aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
>>> like a doped conducter can become superconducter.
>>
>>   Exactly which doped conductor can become a superconductor? (And at what
>> temperature?)
>>
> 
> Dunno, *I* haven't read superconductor-physics. That's just *how i red 
> what Chambers wrote*, so that's *what I think he ment*.
> 

Kind of, but I was wrong :)

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...Ben Chambers
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From: Paul Fuller
Subject: Re: Now what am I going to store on this?
Date: 20 Apr 2008 22:47:25
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Invisible wrote:
> 
> Those are quite impressive specs actually... where can I buy one? :-D
> 

You can make them yourself if you team up with a suitable joint venture 
partner.  Best thing is the units can in fact replicate further so you 
can potentially populate all available space with these units.

Of course other 'companies' are trying to do the same with their 
competing designs.


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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Now what am I going to store on this?
Date: 21 Apr 2008 04:31:38
Message: <480c50ea$1@news.povray.org>
>> Those are quite impressive specs actually... where can I buy one? :-D
> 
> You can make them yourself if you team up with a suitable joint venture 
> partner.  Best thing is the units can in fact replicate further so you 
> can potentially populate all available space with these units.
> 
> Of course other 'companies' are trying to do the same with their 
> competing designs.

We are all sexy, sexy von Neumann machines!

http://www.xkcd.com/387/

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From: Invisible
Subject: Re: Now what am I going to store on this?
Date: 21 Apr 2008 04:33:25
Message: <480c5155$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:

>   Atomic and molecular chemistry is one of the wackiest phenomena of
> nature I can think of.
> 
>   Take an innocent harmless molecule, remove one atom from it, and it might
> be converted into a deadly poison.

Or, for example, take something like normal diatomic Oxygen, O2. This 
simple molecule is required for all animal life. Now convert it to the 
resonance hybrid, O3, and you have a carginogen. Cute, eh?

Also, D2O is very slightly poisonous - and technically it's "the same 
chemical" as H2O...

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