The trick is to use a tuna can instead of a soup can and coopt one of the leftover mercury atoms from the tuna ;)
jay >From: Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 2006/07/17 Mon PM 05:30:30 CDT >To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [time-nuts] New frequency standard, Mercury better than Cesium? >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 _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list [email protected] https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts
