• Wollaston wire is a very fine (c. 0.001 mm thick) platinum wire clad in silver and used in electrical instruments. For most uses, the silver cladding...
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    William Hyde Wollaston FRS (/ˈwʊləstən/; 6 August 1766 – 22 December 1828) was an English chemist and physicist who is famous for discovering the chemical...
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    making wire-wound resistors. Nichrome wire is the most common type. High-voltage cable Barbed wire Chicken wire Razor wire Tinsel wire Wollaston wire Swiger...
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    resettable eFUSE Resistor Switch Thermistor Transformer Varistor Wire Wollaston wire Reactive Capacitor types Ceramic resonator Crystal oscillator Inductor...
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    or leads. These leads connect to other electrical components, often over wire, to create an electronic circuit with a particular function (for example...
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    result is called Wollaston wire. The silver cladding is etched off a short piece of the composite wire, leaving an extremely fine platinum wire; this is supported...
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    resettable eFUSE Resistor Switch Thermistor Transformer Varistor Wire Wollaston wire Reactive Capacitor types Ceramic resonator Crystal oscillator Inductor...
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    of resistance wire. The "fingers" can be moved along the coil of resistance wire by a sliding knob thus changing the "tapping" point. Wire-wound rheostats...
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  • Winogradsky column – Sergei Winogradsky Wollaston landscape lens – William Hyde Wollaston Wollaston wire – William Hyde Wollaston Woodruff key – W.N. Woodruff Wood's...
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    resettable eFUSE Resistor Switch Thermistor Transformer Varistor Wire Wollaston wire Reactive Capacitor types Ceramic resonator Crystal oscillator Inductor...
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