On 03/01/2013 10:45 AM, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > Using this numbers, Water is 24x better than air Mineral oil is 6.75x > better than air 3M Novec 7000 is only 3.125x better What is clearly > much better than the other alternatives for heat transfer. If only it > wasn't conductive, and corrosive (rust, anyone?) I hope this makes up > for my earlier exaggerated numbers. Prentice
Technically, pure water is not a good conductor. More of a dielectric insulator. Its when you get those nasty impurities and ions in it, that it becomes an ok conductor. Since its such a good solvent, its rather hard to keep those nasty ions out. As far as I remember, one of the hardest parts of dealing with cooling liquids are the impurity buildup issues. Unless you are dealing with Flourinert (see www.sisweb.com/referenc/msds/fc70.pdf ) which is goodness embodied ... unless you burn it ... then its pure eeeevuuulll. -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics, Inc. email: land...@scalableinformatics.com web : http://scalableinformatics.com http://scalableinformatics.com/sicluster phone: +1 734 786 8423 x121 fax : +1 866 888 3112 cell : +1 734 612 4615 _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
