In message <[email protected]>, "Rick Karlquist" writes: >J. Forster wrote: >> Cesium is pretty reactive and could likely be stripped off chemically and >> the CBT tube cleaned. > >The HP/Agilent CBT experts claimed they didn't know how to do this, at least >for any economically viable cost. They also said they have been >asked this question approximately 2 gazillion times.
The problem is not inactivating the cesium, that happens when pretty much any gas enteres the tube. The problem is getting the resulting chemical compounds cleaned out. Cs salts are not very soluble in pretty much anything. -- 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] To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.
