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From: dennisg@felix.UUCP (Dennis Griesser)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: wireless electricity
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Date: 3 May 89 20:05:46 GMT
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Greg Wageman writes:
>Hmm, I guess you must be too young to remember crystal radios?  These
>were radios that used a diode (originally, a germanium crystal and a

In article <17794@cup.portal.com> ISW@cup.portal.com (Isaac S Wingfield) writes:
>Nope. Iron pyrites (fool's gold).

Nope yourself!

He probably ment Galena, PbS, the principal ore of lead.