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From: jeff@tesla.UUCP (Jeff Frey)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: Discwasher ZeroStat
Message-ID: <213@tesla.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Sep-83 09:17:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 29 09:17:52 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 2-Oct-83 18:04:16 EDT
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Squeezing the trigger compresses a piezoelectric crystal; releasing the
pressure lets the crystal spring back, the voltage discharges across a
small air-gap, ionizing the air molecules within.  These ionized particles
gobble up their opposites on the record surface.
Jeff