[AMPS] smoke

[gdaught6@leland.Stanford.EDU]

steve,

you wrote,

> Over the weekend, a friend put forward his theory that we've got it all
> wrong with electrons (and holes):- power devices actually run on smoke.
> Proof? When the smoke gets out they stop working :-)

this is an old "theory" that hasn't really been formalized into a 
proper scientific theory (with equations and the like) but which has 
long been recognized to be a truism.

73,
k6gt

George T. Daughters, K6GT

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