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At 09:08 AM 2/24/2006, Tony King - W4ZT wrote:
>You can see the innards of the tube here: <http://gs35b.com/gs35b/bang.html>
>You will notice that the ceramic bulges out and is presented
>horizontally adjacent to and just above the copper anode before turning
>downward. This might support the electron bombardment theory.
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Why would the electrons bombard the ceramic? Ceramic is a
near-perfect insulator and could not possibly attract electrons,
unlike the heavily positive anode. A few random electrons, yes, but
that glow appears to me to be much more substantial than that. I vote
for the soft x-ray theory.
73, Bill W6WRT
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