I might indeed believe the glass absorbs it. That might have been what I had seen when trying to repair some of the lpro type rbs. Thanks
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Mike S <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
