"Michael Kennedy" writes:

"Eeyore" wrote in message
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bz wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
bz wrote:
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Those 'tiny' currents can be quite large
when discharging a significant charge.

Yes, but you can not 'have a significant charge' on a chip without
having a high voltage differential between the chip and the conductor!

You can certainly have a charge that does not exceed the breakdown
potential of the IC oxide layer yet results in probably several AMPS of
instantaneous current when shorted into close to zero ohms through an
aluminium foil sheet.

Why do you NITWITS feel the need to argue about the BLEEDING OBVIOUS ?

Why do you feel the need to insult someone that is trying to help you
understand something?

I'm never going to learn anything from a halfwit like YOU.


A half amp is .5 coul/sec. This represents about 3.121 x10^18 electrons.
A penny (1950 vintage) weighs about 3.1 gm and contains about 2.9 x 10^22
atoms.
There are clearly quite a few electrons in that penny, but NOT a huge
excess
of electrons, normally.

You really are ****ING CLULESS.

Graham

Nice rational argument there Grahm. In my opininon you essentially
discredited everything you have said by resorting to name calling.

After reading everyone's argument, from what I can tell it seems Alunimum
should be fine for most circumstances. Even Sam says it's fine.

Does anyone remember manufacturers actually packaging CMOS chips in
in carriers with aluminum foam coated styrofoam? I wish I could find
some of those. Maybe before antistatic packaging was common.

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