How to make non-neutral charge batteries...

[Bill Stewart]

At 09:13 PM 11/9/98 -0600, Jim Choate wrote:
>The two vertical plates above are not a capacitor. They simply represent
>some mechanism to hold charge, Leyden Jars for example.

A Leyden Jar _IS_ a capacitor, which _IS_ a mechanism to hold charge.
Capacitors don't have to come from a factory in plastic or ceramic packaging;
they're simply two (or more) conductive surfaces separated by insulation;
that insulation can be air (or probably even vacuum), though there are
much better insulators around, which commercial capacitors normally use.
				Thanks! 
					Bill
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