Re: Zap, fry, and sizzle

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From: Ken Yap
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1990 02:17

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|Fluorescent tubes :  Best if thrown like a javelin. Very loud if stood
|		     upright and allowed to fall on hard surface.

Be careful with these, they contain poisonous compounds of mercury in
the coating.

Just to show I do have a sense of humor, I once destroyed a vacumn
tube by breaking the seal under water, and then applying filament
voltage. After a long time, steam starting coming out of the broken
tip of the valve.

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