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Re: Smiley Faces-Quartz lamps



At 06:10 9/25/98 -0500, Karl wrote:
Aside: Don't forget that for physicists, quartz envelopes on mercury vapor
lamps mean that you can get enough UV from the lamp to succesfully do the
photoelectric effect. With the glass envleope, the UV will not discharge
an electroscope when shone on a clean zinc plate. Karl

As Karl seems in this paragraph to be completely isolated from the debate,
let me attempt to render his words in "strict" format:

....for physicists, fused silica envelopes ...UV

With the non-silica glass envelope, the UV...

This seems to be the crux of the debate; the strict versus informal use of
words...

Brian
brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>
Altus OK