Comment on Gold

• ricdeh@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Would it? Perhaps it wouldn’t oxidise as fast, but copper is more conductive.

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• rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  yes for corrosion resistance and ductility. no for hardness, electrical and heat conductivity. you can’t use gold or its compounds as catalysts where copper makes sense

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• zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For what? Gold is a shit conductor compared to copper.

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  • DrBob@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not shit, it’s top 3 behind silver and copper. But those oxidize and gold doesn’t. So a gold coated silver core is what you want.

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    • Zwiebel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I stand corrected. Idk why I thought it was a better conductor

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    • zaphod@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Gold coating for connectors is nice. For everything else it doesn’t really matter, you get an oxide layer that prevents further oxidation.

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  • gnutrino@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It has ~70% the conductivity of pure copper, it’s not “shit”

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