the high price of Wollaston wire

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These folks sell Wollaston wire, platinum in nickel. One-micron wire costs $1556 per meter, or $458 per 10 cm. We're not even going to talk about the 0.6-micron wire.

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[hattifattener]

That'd be a teeny tiny thermocouple. or something. Yeah, what do you want it for?

[eub.livejournal.com]

I would just pet it very, very gently.

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

Maybe he wants to prepare a long talk about a cool idea he had with it, documenting how the idea didn't actually work or anything?

Come to think of it, that's kind of what *I* do at work (and essentially what my thesis project was like in grad school), no wonder I had such a problem with those kinds of talks at dorkbot.