Tony Meloche wrote:

Frank's thought was pretty much the same as mine. The most conductive
of all metals is silver, but you don't see many people arguing to use a
4'-8' length of silver rod because it "works even better than copper"
:D

During WWII the 'Manhattan' (atomic bomb) project needed some very large
electromagnets for a device that refined Uranium-235. There was a
shortage of copper so they appropriated *all* the silver in Fort Knox to
make the wire for the magnets. They returned every ounce of it.

See:

http://www.cosmos-club.org/journals/2002/larson.html


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