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From: hwt@bnr-public.uucp (Henry Troup)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Flashbulbs (was something stupid and illegal...)
Message-ID: <243@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jan 89 15:24:17 GMT
References: <3835@midas.TEK.COM> <190700025@trsvax> <13355@cup.portal.com>
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Reply-To: hwt@bnr-public.UUCP (Henry Troup)
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In article <13355@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:
>
>At the risk of enormous flames, both here and hereafter, the fine wire inside
>a flashbulb is magnesium wire.

Leaving aside the pun on flames, I beleive it's actually hafnium or something
else quite exotic... and exothermic!
 


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