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It is another Bosch special recipe, which has some sound engineering theory. With that said, there is an underlying energy to promote marketing.
I have been reading up on the theory on transistors, which are semiconductors. In those, they used rare earth chemical elements to make them perform differently for special purposes. They dope them with actually impurities.
Yttrium is a substance found mixed in with other intrinsic conducting elements. This is a byproduct of getting to the other elements used as impurities.
Fluoride is a byproduct of making aluminum ingredients. Some say it is poisonous but it is in drinking water.
As best I can figure they not after a better conducting quality core but one that has a tighter bond within itself. In other words it is more dense than copper and therefore MAY resist breakdown like the copper it is mixed into.
According to the dictionary, it has a higher melting point and atomic number than copper. It will displace a certain amount of the copper in the recipe. It should be harder or some quality to resist something, IMO. Just do not ask me what and how much I will pay to care!
Platinum is higher in numbers than the yttrium. Platinum is probably more expensive. Is that going to make the copper plus plugs cheaper than the platinum plugs or is it a gimmick to raise price of the copper plugs and fill the platinum sales hole?
I have tried the platinum plugs. I have lost some confidence in them some time ago. It happened when I saw the pin sized platinum electrode disappear down inside the insulator. There was not much of it to begin with.
I do not know the price of the two elements since it is more rare than copper, I do not see them trying to save on the price of copper as much as it has gone up.
If they can advertise and enhance the idea that it is better, then the content they put in the electrode does not matter one bit. The perceived idea will make them money!
Maybe platinum sales have slumped. Like car tires, it is time to change the tread pattern, because they can! The copper plugs have a wide base of “time in use.” They can tweak it or should I say squeeze it!
How can you tell the difference without a direct comparison to the way you drive? It is not going to happen unless you are in to analysis and track your self with copulas notes.
All advances are incremental, forward and backwards sometimes! Platinum may have been backwards if you talk to car enthusiast or mechanics who see this stuff daily.
It will take us, like a grand jury to sort this out, the way platinum plugs went.
Phil
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