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Subject: [AMPS] BeO Cautions
From: G3SEK@ifwtech.demon.co.uk (Ian White, G3SEK)
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 09:24:09 +0000
Ian Roberts wrote:
>It should have been obvious what I was trying to say. The pure form of
>BeO IS white, but the manufacturers have licence to make it any colour
>that they please, from white to black, depending on what mix of
>"alumina", "silica", and "beryllia" and other compounds they choose to
>incorporate in the mix
>An amateur who assumes it has to be pure white to be BeO, such as
>urself, apparently, could be in for a nasty....

That isn't what I said at all! I said that the pink colour has NO
CONNECTION with any beryllia content, so the colour is totally useless
as an indication.

 
73 from Ian G3SEK          Editor, 'The VHF/UHF DX Book'
                          'In Practice' columnist for RadCom (RSGB)
                           http://www.ifwtech.demon.co.uk/g3sek

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