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Henning
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I’m worried that coating the expensive tungsten electrodes with silver will make them worthless.

Wouldn’t it be better to mill cheaper copper electrodes and coat them? Copper is easier to handle anyway. Or any other easily millable metal.

As I understand, the surface evaporates, so the underlying material is unimportant. Or am I wrong?

Yes it will delay the experiments further, and will cost several thousand dollars.