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Re: New 'electrical active' Armour to defeat hand held anti-tank rounds

From: Scott Siebold <gamers@a...>
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 01:48:54 -0500
Subject: Re: New 'electrical active' Armour to defeat hand held anti-tank rounds

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>
>>It is not a liquid or a solid but a plasma ( states of
>>matter are solid, liquid, gas, plasma and
>>superconductor now(more?)). 
>>
>
>Err... not quite. A superconductor is not a 'state of matter' in the
>same sense as the others. A superconductor is a solid that happens to
>have no resistance to electricity. Just as solids can vary in colour,
>density, heat conductivity etc. Materials of different color are not
>defined as different 'states of matter' in the strict definition of
>that term. 
>
Ah yes quite. Ther are 5 "states" of matter and one of those states is 
"superconductor". I
didn't make this up but it was in one of those 200 level  physics 
classes I had to take in
collage. A material that is in the superconductive state "ACTS" 
differently then matter in
the other states.

An intersting side issue is glass is a high desity liquid which is 
slowly moving (glass
that is 100+ years old is actually denser at the base then at the top).

Scott Siebold


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