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Subject: [AMPS] BeO Cautions
From: G3SEK@ifwtech.demon.co.uk (Ian White, G3SEK)
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 13:35:19 +0000
Ian Roberts wrote:
>The best advice must be to treat any porcelain-like high temperature
>device as probably containing Be, including the "pinkish" Russian ditto,
>and the insides of power transistors.

Pure beryllia is white, and the pink colour is not related to beryllia -
see the FAQ page at www.svetlana.com

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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