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Article #5328Re: Has anyone made any homemade valves (tubes), semiconductors ...
From: Doug McDonald
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 1990 20:46
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 1990 20:46
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In article <1990Jul28.185816.13964@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: > > Having seen the phrase "liquid phase electronics" in print, it >occurs to me that "solid state electronics" is perhaps a bit of a misnomer. >Vacuum tubes are solid state too; they certainly don't have any liquid in >them and (if they are any good) don't have any gas either. What's left, if >not solid? >-- Well, tubes without vacuum are vacuum tubes, so .... But there are common electron tubes that DO contain gas (hydrogen, argon, neon, or mercury) or liquid (mercury). Doug McDonald
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!uwm.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!aries!mcdonald From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) Newsgroups: sci.electronics,sci.chem Subject: Re: Has anyone made any homemade valves (tubes), semiconductors ... Message-ID: <1990Jul28.204655.5473@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 28 Jul 90 20:46:55 GMT References: <872@massey.ac.nz> <972@flash.UUCP> <1990Jul28.185816.13964@phri.nyu.edu> Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News) Reply-To: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald) Organization: School of Chemical Sciences, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 15