[time-nuts] New frequency standard, Mercury better than Cesium?

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <44BC5877.90309 at pacific.net>, Brooke Clarke writes:
>Hi Chuck:
>
>I think it will take 4 to 6 years for the tin whiskers to grow to the 
>point of shorting out IC packages, relays, etc.

That's already well past the lifetime of most consumer electronics.

RoHS has various excemptions and T&M is indeed one of them.

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