I am getting ready to remodel my kitchen and decided on Granite countertops. BUT, my friend told me that Granite can break (crack) very easy and I should consider Corian or Quartz. Any thoughts on helping me decide which to use? Thank you.
CRYSTAL HAS VERY HIGH IMPEDANCE IN MEGA OHM RANGE, NO AFFECT TO IT WIHT VERY LOW VOLTAGE, BUT A BIT HIGH ENOUGH VOLTAGE DESTROYS ITS CHEMICAL STRUCTURE INSTANTLY. ONLY FOOLS THOUGHT TO USE THIS WAY TO MELT CRYSTAL.
Quarts has a property of mechanical change with an electric current, likely it would just fracture. An electric arc could produce enough heat for melting. Do you have a clue how big a 50 KVA transformer is? You are talking as big as a truck trailer. Conductors would be like copper 4X4s Quarts is not a metal,it is a mineral and a crystalline mineral at that.
Quartz is also a pretty good (depends on the exact type) isolator, so a) a low voltage isn't going to accomplish anything, no matter how big the transformer b) a high voltage will either arc through the air around or over the dirt on the surface, so if you conduct your experiment in a vacuum with a perfectly clean and smoot specimen, c) nothing will happen until at some point the crystal will vapurize and the arc will then happily persist throught the vapour cloud
