Pencil lead is inner conductor, foil outer, insulation between. Can't
have much capacitance though unless they meant to wrap the tape around
the bare lead and then cover with foil. Foil around the outside of a
bottle with water and a wire inside works too.
A. P. (Sandy) Grice wrote:
>
> The other is to wrap a
> strip of aluminium foil slightly smaller than an insulating strip of tape
> around a pencil. Now if someone can explain this to me....
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