Re: [APD] Caution with lead weights -- Or - Ethyl's Nails

[Vaughn Hopkins <hoppycalif at yahoo_com>]

You need to know more than the length, the cross section is needed  
too.  It's really micro mhos per centimeter per square centimeter.

On Sep 27, 2006, at 3:45 PM, Jerry Baker wrote:

> Stuart Halliday wrote:
> > I wonder if there is some sort of test we can do to tell the  
> > difference?
>
> Cut a one centimeter strip of one of these bands and test the
> resistivity with a multimeter. If it's about 5.9 mΩ cm it's zinc,  
> but if
> it's about 21 mΩ cm it's lead.
>
> --
> Jerry Baker
>
>
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