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From: davin@me.utoronto.ca (Davin Yap)
Subject: Re: Why not evacuate Disk drives.
Message-ID: <90Aug3.020951edt.15758@me.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical Engineering
References: <V%6$_&|@rpi.edu> <14900013@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com>
Date: 3 Aug 90 06:10:04 GMT

In article <14900013@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com> sritacco@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Steve Ritacco) writes:
>
>>The easiest probably used sealed Helium.  Advantages and disadvantages
>>can be found in the literature.
>
>Why helium? That's pretty expensive, I'd think. Why not something "common" 
>like nitrogen?

Air is mostly (70%?) nitrogen.