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    Stan Bischof entitled a message as 'Re: beryllium copper',
   on the 11-05-92  19:46 to All.
 >The real nasty problem is with beryllium oxide heat sinks!
 >The white ceramic looking heaksinks on TO-3 transistors is really nasty.
 >I have heard it said that if anyone takes a file and grinds away at one of
 >these BeO heatsinks, it might kill that indivdual!
 >--

 SB> Yeah, And I've heard that Clinton won't raise our taxes. rumor !=
 SB> truth.
 SB> In the first place, BeO is NOT white (it's black).

    Though your first statement is correct the second is not.
    BeO is generally WHITE in appearance.  Now they made either
    add impurities or use a different process to get black BUT
    reading the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics states it
    WHITE as mr Wallace stated.

    Cyberman
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