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From: mitch@stride1.UUCP (Thomas P. Mitchell)
Newsgroups: rec.audio,sci.physics,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Mercury Filled Speaker Wire
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Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 13:06:03 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 16 13:06:03 1987
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Summary: CAUTION  Mercury is poison.
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In article <2166@sigi.Colorado.EDU> heuring@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Vincent Heuring) writes:
>In article <3816@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> bmaraldo@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (Commander Brett Maraldo) writes:
>>
>>  I just made a set of 2m long 5mm in diameter mercury filled cables with
>
>I can see the review by Anthony Cordesman now:
>
>	"This wire lends a liquid transparency to strings. The fluid quality
>	of horns has to be heard to be believed.  There is a silvery
>	quality to the brass, with no sign of the hard-edged, coppery
>	sound normally associated with speaker cable...

And later as Anthony is slowly poisoned by the Hg vapor from an
undetected leak the review flows into a dialogue reminiscent of
Edgar Allan Poe.

Perhaps there are those on the net who can tell us the name of
the famous author who had his study painted a wonderful Cinnabar
red in his last years.  Cinnabar is a natural mineral, HgS.  

Mercury is bad stuff!!!!  If you wish to live long and prosper.
Do not play with that stuff!!  Bletch gag :-( borf gorp etc.
Thomas P. Mitchell (mitch@stride1.Stride.COM)
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