Soldering other precipitation may wash the lead into the groundwater. Unfortunately, most lead-free solders are not eutectic formulations, melting at around , making it more difficult to create reliable joints with them. Other common solders include low-temperature formulations (often containing bismuth), which are often used to join previously-soldered assemblies without unsoldering earlier connections, and high-temperature formulations (usually containing silver) which are used for high-temperature operation or for first assembly of items which must not become unsoldered during subsequent operations. Alloying silver with other metals changes the melting point, adhesion and wetting characteristics, and tensile strength. Of all the brazing alloys, silver
Constant phase element Constant phase element A constant phase element is an equivalent electrical circuit component that models the behaviour of a double layer, that is an imperfect capacitor. Constant phase elements are also used in equivalent circuit modelling and data fitting of electrochemical impedance spectroscopy data. A constant phase element also appears currently in modeling the behaviour of the imperfect dielectrics. The generalization in the fields of imperfect electrical resistances, capacitances and inductances leads to the general "Phasance" concept: http://fr.scribd.com/doc/71923015/The-Phasance-Concept The electrical impedance can be calculated: where the CPE admittance is: formula_2 and Q and n (0<n<1) are frequency independent. Q =