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From: mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Crystal radios - wasn't it a 'galena' crystal?
Message-ID: <24435@cup.portal.com>
Date: 24 Nov 89 04:35:41 GMT
References: <5386@internal.Apple.COM>
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ems@Apple.COM (Mike Smith) says:

> Is PbS a semiconductor (if properly doped)?  If so, what are it's
> properties?  I seem to remember some 'old timers' saying that a
> good crystal was far better than those new fangled diode things...

Yeah, I bet the diode drop might be small er than for a silicon diode.
Anybody know how much it is?


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