Timeline for Why does the thermal conductivity of water decrease with increasing salinity?
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| Aug 14, 2014 at 12:41 | vote | accept | Jan M. | ||
| Aug 13, 2014 at 0:24 | comment | added | David Hammen | I completely misread the question. Somehow I read it as asking about specific heat. I'm withdrawing my answer, and then later I'll withdraw this comment. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 19:12 | comment | added | Jan M. | @CuriousOne yes, that is what I based my expectation on. I agree that it's a bit loose to tie metals and saline liquids together like that. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 19:10 | answer | added | Nikos M. | timeline score: 1 | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 19:05 | comment | added | Nikos M. | @CuriousOne, yes this confuses me also, yet i too have seen cases where the 2 are not correlated as such | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 18:57 | comment | added | CuriousOne | Someone correct me, if I am wrong, but doesn't the expectation that thermal conductivity and electrical conductivity are correlated come from the special case of metal physics, where electron transport is the main source of both (in a certain temperature range)? There are marvelous counterexamples, for instance diamond, sapphire and pure crystalline silicon, which have enormous thermal conductivity, but very poor or basically non-existent electrical conductivity. | |
| Aug 12, 2014 at 18:15 | history | edited | Jan M. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 12, 2014 at 16:18 | history | asked | Jan M. | CC BY-SA 3.0 |