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From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (Doug McDonald)
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Subject: Re: Has anyone made any homemade valves (tubes), semiconductors ...
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In article <1990Jul28.185816.13964@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>
>	Having seen the phrase "liquid phase electronics" in print, it
>occurs to me that "solid state electronics" is perhaps a bit of a misnomer.
>Vacuum tubes are solid state too; they certainly don't have any liquid in
>them and (if they are any good) don't have any gas either.  What's left, if
>not solid?
>--

Well, tubes without vacuum are vacuum tubes, so ....

But there are common electron tubes that DO contain gas (hydrogen,
argon, neon, or mercury) or liquid (mercury).

Doug McDonald