They probably dont want the little rascals bumping into one-another and broadening the resonance line :-)) Alan G3NYK ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike S" <[email protected]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 9:10 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Rubidium standard
> At 03:24 PM 11/23/2009, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote... > > >There are no "rubidium crystals" involved. > > Next you'll try and tell us that you can't make a clock run backwards > by using dilithium crystals, and making it warp time. > > My understanding is that the Rb gets absorbed into the glass envelope, > so that eventually there isn't enough to provide proper operation. Rb > isn't that expensive (you can buy 1 g for $100 at retail - > http://elementsales.com/pl_element_grp1.htm ), so I'm not clear on why > they don't just put more than ~0.001 g in to begin with. > > www.spectratime.com/product_downloads/life_mtbf.pdf > > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
