Digital BW, The Print

Well, I don¹t have the credentials to contribute much here, but I do have a
question.

Given that carbon is not non-reactive, grinding it to a superfine level
enormously increases the surface to volume ratio and may, therefore make it
much more physically (not chemically) reactive, no?

Harry


On 8/20/07 11:24 PM, "Editor, P.O.V. Image Service" <editor@...>
wrote:
> 
> [Major SNIP]
> 
> Does that mean the carbon is non-reactive? No, it's simply not a noble
> gas.  But just grinding it down to a superfine level doesn't make it
> reactive.
> 
> Tyler Boley wrote:
>> > --- In DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
>> <mailto:DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint%40yahoogroups.com> , "Editor, P.O.V.
>> > Image Service" <editor@...> wrote:
>> >   
>>> >> Did I miss this group becoming the "Harry Potter" and/or "PT Barnum"
>>> >> sales-pitch group?
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm sorry, but the laws of chemistry and physics, not those of alchemy
>>> >> and hocus-pocus, apply, no matter how finely you grind the carbon.
>>> >>
>>> >> john dean wrote:
>>> >>     
>>>> >>> When this carbon is ground to such an ultrafine state to fit through
>>>> >>> the nozzles of these printers and produce 2880 dpi resolution, and
>>>> >>> even in variable sizes, you know they are not in a normal state either
>>>> >>> molecularly or even chemically with the other ingredients added to
>>>> >>> them for viscosity and suspension. And its all secret stuff...
>>>> >>>       


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Harry F. Lockwood




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