Abstract
The self-healing fuse employs a liquid metal as the contacting material. It is held ina closed system consisting of two reservoirs to which leads are attached, connected via a heavy-walled insulating capillary. Liquid metal completely fills the system, the metal within the capillary tube serving as the fuse element. A mercury-in-glass fuse used in the first experiments is shown in Fig. 1.
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A. Kelly, Strong Solids, Chap. 5, Oxford University Press (1966), p. 121.
A. von Engel, Ionized Gases, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press (1965), p. 236.
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Renton, C.A., Manco, R.J. (1968). An Exploding Wire Self-Healing Fuse. In: Chace, W.G., Moore, H.K. (eds) Exploding Wires. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7328-3_23
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