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From: steve@nuchat.UUCP (Steve Nuchia)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.ham-radio
Subject: Re: Has anyone made any homemade valves (tubes), semiconductors ...
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Date: 27 Jul 90 22:13:42 GMT
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Back in high school it occurred to me that it might be possible to
build a liquid state "tube".  Immerse the electrodes in an electrolyte
solution and see what you can make it do...  I didn't know enough
electronics, physics, or chemistry (though I thought I did) to give
it a fair test at the time.

Anybody know whether it is possible to get gain out of such a device?
Granted its lifetime is very short, but it compares well with the
properties of homemade vacuum tubes (if it works, of course).

-- 
Steve Nuchia	      South Coast Computing Services      (713) 964-2462
"To learn which questions are unanswerable, and _not_to_answer_them;
this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."
		Ursula LeGuin, _The_Left_Hand_of_Darkness_