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From: dant@mtdoom.WR.TEK.COM (Dan Tilque)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: The great light bulb debate
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Date: 13 Nov 90 21:21:27 GMT
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henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
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>Krypton is better than argon for the same reason that argon is better than
>vacuum:  the denser gas slows the evaporation of the tungsten filament.

Obviously we need to take this to it's logical extension.  It's time to
start recycling all that radon that everyone has in their houses.

And I want no namby-pamby whining about radon being radioactive.  In a
lightbulb, that's not a bug, it's a feature.

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Dan Tilque	--	dant@mtdoom.WR.TEK.COM