In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Normand Martel writes: >They should be able.... the standard uses a single >mercury atom!! ;-)
Which interestingly enough might make them incompatible with the RoHS (Reduction of Harmfull Substances) regulation here in EU. As far as I've understood RoHS, you can get away with trace amounts of heavy metals on the banned list, under a theory of environmental contamination, but if you include them deliberately, you're in violation. Fortunately metrological equipment is easy to get an excemption for :-) -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
