[time-nuts] Surplus Guidelines, was: Rubidium Standard

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun Dec 10 16:17:37 EST 2006


In message <000301c71c9f$739aefa0$0900a8c0 at cyrus>, "Bill Hawkins" writes:

>Well, if the glass itself is blackened, the laser will
>probably just melt a hole in the glass. No reason not
>to try, though. A blackened bulb is useless.

Rubidium is _really_ not something you want to let out
in your lab and in particular not near optics you
intend to use.

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