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From: ardai@teda.UUCP (Mike Ardai)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Has anyone made any homemade valves (tubes), semiconductors ...
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Date: 26 Jul 90 14:17:53 GMT
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In article <872@massey.ac.nz> GMoretti@massey.ac.nz (Giovanni Moretti) writes:
>And how about batteries with household chemicals (ie not sulphuric)

How about using a lemon with a nail and a penny stuck in it?  Or a voltaic
pile made out of stacks of pennies and silver dimes with salt-soaked
blotter between them?  
/mike

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