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From: haynes@ucscc.UCSC.EDU (99700000)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Homemade tubes, semiconductors, etc...
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Date: 6 Aug 90 06:17:54 GMT
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In article <1814@mountn.dec.com> baker@wbc.dec.com writes:
>	A LOOOOONNNNNNGGGGGGGGG time ago, there was an article in
>	Popular Electronics on making wet-cell diodes using a vat
>	of sodium borate and water with two electrodes in it, one
>	copper and the other aluminum.  The idea was to connect a
I've heard these were quite common in the early days of radio.
They were often called 'slop jar' rectifiers.  The breakdown voltage
is fairly low, so you had to use a lot of jars in series for high
voltage.

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