Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E.R." Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Mercury Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 14:17:48 +0200 Lines: 49 Message-ID: References: <1rsoqz0.19zzbh71ebfb7bN%snipeco.2@gmail.com> <18a11176d0ed8bfb$1717$2710841$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <1rsp93i.i0zwza16xvqdfN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <18a11b491becb6ce$558$2491104$802601b3@news.usenetexpress.com> <1rsq78a.9hgxro1eczx2yN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <10qb9df$1inu5$14@dont-email.me> <1rsr591.1ssq8oh1dihjwuN%nospam@de-ster.demon.nl> <10qc4dc$1silm$10@dont-email.me> <0cqjskp5oprp9v1utu6t3q8u0urkpnjbvs@4ax.com> <97uq9mxp8h.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> <10qj2u6$63en$10@dont-email.me> <5cqcnUPA69dMVVD0nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net BkjkLihJ/mexilMgBwFO7AkOt3JHi39uP0STy5H82sh+kyJBZZ X-Orig-Path: Telcontar.valinor!not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:zrGnv+fcFL1gcm2lXEevW1Z9QNs= sha256:HUXlUu9WrJgScReRfm44aGFZU4Q3YkQFFuG+RsAujdU= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: es-ES, en-CA In-Reply-To: <5cqcnUPA69dMVVD0nZ2dnZfqnPqdnZ2d@giganews.com> X-Leafnode-NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:85151 On 2026-04-02 03:39, c186282 wrote: > On 4/1/26 20:28, rbowman wrote: >> https://hackaday.com/2026/04/01/mercury-audio-cables-so-nobody-else-has- >> to-do-it/ >> >> "We’ve seen our fair share of audiophile tomfoolery here at Hackaday, and >> we’ve even poked fun at a few of them over the years. Perhaps one of the >> most outrageously over the top that we’ve so far seen comes from [Pierogi >> Engineering] who, we’ll grant you not in a spirit of audiophile >> expectation, has made a set of speaker interconnects using liquid >> mercury." >> >> >> Mind the date. > >   Hey, it's a good conductor !  :-) > >   Drop it down near absolute zero and >   it's a *perfect* conductor ... > >   Still have some switches in my house that >   use a mercury-filled glass tube. Bronze >   contacts pit away, but mercury is self >   renewing. I have not seen that, not in houses. I saw it in a water tank we had with a buoy operated switch. Something would change balance and the mercury in two glass bubbles would make the contact. The thing was placed outside of the Uralita reservoir. Then would come a strong wind, move the switch housing, and the reservoir would run empty, the mercury did not make contact. Eventually we replaced it with something like this: Much more reliable. > >   Some gallium alloys can, if slightly warm, >   also be liquid - but the 'slightly warm' >   is the practical issue. > There are gallium thermometers. -- Cheers, Carlos. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;