I had the "brilliant" idea of using liquid gallium as a heat transfer
medium between a molybdenum and alumina surface, at up to 1700 deg C.
and between a stainless steel and alumina surface at up to 800 deg C -
now apparently wiser heads are saying this is a bad idea. Is it really ?
The application is temperature measurement in an instrument. There must
be no forces between the two surfaces, but they should be in good
thermal contact, hence the liquid medium.
Any comments on the merits of the idea would be much appreciated.
Steve
- posted 16 years ago