In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Lacus) wrote: > mike wilson wrote: > >> heat, dryness and fresh air. The coating on camera lenses is > >> organic, here's the food. > > That's the first I've heard of this. Any further information? > > AFAIK, coatings (such as SMC) are ceramic. > AFAIK they are thin layers of metal oxide. I don't know whether it > could be considered ceramic (or organic), though. :-)
Oxides and fluorides of assorted metals IIRC. Which are ceramics if they're in bulk, and definitely aren't organic compounds -- PDML means I get more e-mail than spam!

