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From: dcm@sfsup.UUCP (David C. Miller, consultant)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Flashbulbs (was something stupid and illegal...)
Message-ID: <4622@sfsup.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 01:20:07 GMT
References: <3835@midas.TEK.COM> <190700025@trsvax> <13355@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: dcm@sfsup.UUCP (David C. Miller, consultant)
Organization: AT&T Information Systems, Summit, N. J.
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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.

If I remember correctly, the wire is simply aluminum and the bulb is
filled with pure oxygen.  That way if the bulb is broken (either by
accident or intent) it is rendered harmless.

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