Very cool. The protons (H nuclei) actually jump between molecules to carry charge.
Water and ice are amazing things. Both are essentially black in the thermal IR, which can be handy.
Now that's an interesting idea. Ice is a pretty good insulator, but I don't know if some doped ice allotrope can be a semiconductor. It wouldn't be real hard to try some cases. You could make a diode or a transistor by changing water or vapor impurities while freezing a layer onto a surface.
John
"Protons" is also plural, so the sentence is consistent.
And this ain't alt.english.usage, either. JF attacks the English when he has no basis for evaluating substance. He's just in a bad mood.
John
It means that there is nothing wrong with the statement that you objected to.
There *is* more than one hydrogen atom in the universe.
I actually own several of them.
John
Water you talking about, John? ;-)
Nah, you're just borrowing them. Have another beer...
Ouch.
Hydrogen doesn't give you much to work with, you know! ;-)
That's elemental.
John
So, in, say, a zinc-carbon cell, the carbon is the cathode and the zinc is the anode? ?:-/
Thanks, Rich
Since holes are actually nothing, they're not deflected by a magnetic field? ;-)
Thanks, Rich
It wouldn't have a very good temperature range...
;-) Rich
Obviously it's the electrons which are actually moving, hopping from hole to hole.
But somehow, in a p-type semiconductor, they end up getting deflected in the *opposite* direction to what you would expect from their charge and direction of motion and the magnetic field direction.
That's the part for which I've yet to see an explanation aimed at people who aren't steeped in quantum theory.
It's a moot point as to whether they own you ;-)
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