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Unread 07-23-2002, 11:41 AM   #19
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Thats what i meant by "diminishing returns". Airspirit, what's adding resistance is *interface* not material itself. In the case of a "perfect" interface (obviously, brazed / melted materials) there's near zero resistance.
Also a thick plate of silver is out of question considering costs, and forget contact with water...

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What you'll have happen is the heat will be more eager to spread out through the silver plate to all plated areas of the block than to go to the block itself.
Well
1 - it *would* spread through the plate
2 - then the plate would more evenly tranfer to the block
in a way, think of this as an "extension of the core".
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