[time-nuts] Heated crystal? & Rb tube corrosion (FE-5680A)

[Attila Kinali]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 05:19:24 -0500
"Steve ." <iteration69 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looking at those pictures with a different mind set, I see now that the
> washers are not corroded as I had suspected.  It's amazing how they
> resemble badly corroded washers which are so typically found in ovens in
> which alkalines have leaked.

If you mean "alkaline batteries leaking" with "alkalines leaking",
then the corrosion you see there is from something else than
alkali metals. In alkaline batteries you have a potpury of different
highly reactive stuff. What exactly corrodes what and how is something
i cannot tell you, but it's definitly not elemental alkalimetals like
you have in Rb cells.

			Attila Kinali

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