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- From: cyberman@toz.buffalo.ny.us (Cyberman)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: beryllium copper
- Message-ID: <gate.5Ry2TB1w165w@toz.buffalo.ny.us>
- Date: 11 Nov 92 02:15:15 GMT
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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!
- >--
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- 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).
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- 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.
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- Cyberman
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