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Anon uses rare rocks to get R34 (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Okay, so like ac in a capacitor smooths current, right? As opposed to DC, where it stores energy?

Imagine a positive and negative terminal with goo in the middle. Atoms move around it randomly in diffusion, but charged atoms are pulled left then right in oscillation. On average, they'd be in the middle

Those ions impart positive charge to the side they're on, so if your cycle is off in one direction or the other, they'd be pushed to the opposite conductor - smoothing the current

I'm not just talking about an insulator - I'm talking about an insulator fluid enough for ions to travel through based on the charges of the...I forget the word in this context, it's anode or cathode

Like rubber? Great insulator, but it's solid - you can't make a capacitor out of it (or a gate, but that's more about heat conductivity). So dielectric insulators must be fluid to some degree, right?