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Specialty Chemistry Forums => Materials and Nanochemistry forum => Topic started by: akela on February 25, 2009, 03:29:24 PM

Title: BaSO4 electrical properties
Post by: akela on February 25, 2009, 03:29:24 PM

Can anyone tell weather BaSO4 is an insulator or conduct electricity? Interested in DC current, not AC.

Title: Re: BaSO4 electrical properties
Post by: Arkcon on February 25, 2009, 07:19:21 PM

Quote from: akela on February 25, 2009, 03:29:24 PM

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BaSO4 is an insulator or conduct electricity?

Dry ionic solids generally don't conduct electricity.  They tend to if they're melted, or if they're dissolved in water, but BaSO4 is mostly insoluble in water, and you're unlikely to encounter it at > 1000 C.

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Interested in DC current, not AC.

That really doesn't matter, now does it?