On 18 December 2014 at 20:51, William "Chops" Westfield wrote: > > readily available in small quantities is the questionable part. > > http://www.adafruit.com/products/1309 > > Available in a couple of sizes. If you need large quantities, they'll > probably tell you where you can get it. > > > Note also Walter's prior response: Stannic Oxide O2Sn is both clear and conductive. I used it as a conductor on electroluminescent cells for my thesis. I am not sure what forms it is available in but it is not expensive. ________________________________ All references note its insolubility in water. As it can be had as a colloidal suspension, coating a layer with this and evaporating and/or use of a transparent carrier may prove useful, or not. Then, there's always sputtering :-(. You can get it as potters glaze and polishing powder. It can be obtained as 15% colloidal suspension in water, "antimony doped". The daring may find useful: Insol in alcohol, or cold acids; slowly sol in hot concentrated potassium or sodium hydroxide soln Budavari, S. (ed.). The Merck Index - An Encyclopedia of Chemicals, Drugs, and Biologicals. Whitehouse Station, NJ: Merck and Co., Inc., 1996., p. 150= 0 from HSDB [1] Sol in concentrated sulfuric acid, hydrochloric acid Lewis, R.J., Sr (Ed.). Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary. 13th ed. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1997., p. 1043 Above from: http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Stannic_oxide#section=3DTop About the most general reference easily located. Russell > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .