Timeline for How to preserve electronics (computers, tablets and phones) for hundreds of years
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| Mar 21, 2019 at 8:50 | comment | added | nigel222 | @Mark - I'm well aware of embrittlement, but if one is freezing something for preservation, it won't be shocked or flexed until it is thawed, so it won't be fractured. Differential expansion - you may be right, but on the other hand people who claim meaningless overclocking records have successfully cooled CPUs with liquid nitrogen. As I said, experimentation might be fun. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 20:27 | comment | added | Mark | The problem with freezing is differential thermal expansion. If you go clear down to absolute zero, you're likely to see things like traces flaking off of circuit boards and integrated circuit packages splitting. Additionally, plastic will become so brittle it'll shatter at a touch, and any glue will lose its adhesive properties. Look up videos of people sticking things in liquid nitrogen for more examples of the problems you'd face. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 19:25 | comment | added | Justin Thyme the Second | Electrolytic capacitors are still used in the power supplies and power filtering circuits. Electrolytics are still the go-to capacitors for large capacitance applications. | |
| Mar 20, 2019 at 9:19 | history | answered | nigel222 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |