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To: Tony Viola who wrote (72782)9/23/1999 1:10:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson  Respond to of 1572348
 
Tony, That would do it, silver is notoriously prone to dendritic growth in silvercell batteries, and that might be an analogous property, it's always something.
I recall way back they could not use aluminium bond wires due to 'purple plague'. I am not sure if a 6% gain woukld be worth engineering around the electromigration problems, as the solution might just cost you the 6%.

Bill