Re: All that glitters is not gold

[Herbert H Gottlieb <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>]

On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 14:59:35 -0800 Paul Goodman <goodman@SMCCCD.CC.CA.US>
writes:
> For years I've been telling my students what someone told me when I
> was a student, that gold is the best conductor, followed by silver, then

> copper. Well, a student showed me a table of resistivities of various
metals
> in his text (Serway, 4th ed., p 777) and, low and behold, the order is
> silver, copper, then gold.

According to the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics ,  Properties of
metals as Conductors.....

Resistivity in microhm-cm at 20 C   are:

Gold  2.44     Silver 1.69    Copper  1.72

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where surface corrosion does not seriously affect  resistivity of a
metal)