Comments on: Liquid Metal Cooler

By: Pyotr

Pyotr — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:39:18 +0000

Usually metal-cooling systems like this are made with sodium metal. Sodium has a low melting point and great thermal conductivity, especially in the liquid phase.

By: bonez

bonez — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:07:24 +0000

The only problem with either gallium or mercury is that the pumping action is electromagnetic in nature and the only non-exotic metal that is significantly reactive to a magnetic field is iron so perhaps it is an iron/mercury amalgam or iron/galliun (and others) alloy.

By: JT

JT — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 06:04:52 +0000

Well, Gallium melts just above room temperature and alloys of it below freezing with the plus side of being absolutely harmless. That’s probably what they’re using. It’s a fairly simple but ingenious solution to cooling since the liquid metal can easily be circulated with magnets to distribute the heat evenly over the radiator.

By: Jaece

Jaece — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:13:28 +0000

So you’d rather have a cooler with a liquid metal you can drink? I mean, what? Why does it matter if it’s poisonous? O.o
Most watercooling systems have a poisonous additive…

By: jaxsun

jaxsun — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:26:49 +0000

what metal would it be made out of? mercury is the only metal at room temperature, but wouldnt that be poisonous? I’m quite curious about this.